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Phosphate problems
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To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com (Aquatic-Plants)
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Subject: Phosphate problems
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From: "David W. Webb" <dwebb at ti_com>
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:54:01 -0800
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Conversation-Id: <BMSMTP82674437733a0206807 at dlep1_itg.ti.com>
>From: NAME: DIONIGI MALADORNO
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>My discus and I also do not want (if possible) to
>raise hardness and pH.
One other thing that I've found is that meat-based foods tend to cause an
upwards-creeping phosphate content in water. Since many cichlids (including
discus) are messy eaters, the broken-up meats can settle into the gravel and
leach out phosphates as they break down.
David W. Webb
Enterprise Computing Provisioning
Texas Instruments Inc. Dallas, TX USA
(214) 575-3443 (voice) MSGID: DAWB
(214) 575-4853 (fax) Internet: dwebb at ti_com
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