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Unread 05/05/2012, 02:30 PM   #40
Randy Holmes-Farley
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Originally Posted by Mr.Aiptasia View Post
I also always taking out all that fluid from, for example, frozen brine shrimp... it is a great source of nitrates

Hmm, and my another thing is my DIY "bio-filter"... but that requires a lot of efforts.
How do you know? What exactly do you think you are washing away? Many people have a mistaken impression of how significant those removable nutrients are.

Even more so than phosphate, all foods contain massive amounts of nitrogen that cannot be washed away. Washing out 1% of the N or P is probably not changing anything significant to the overall addition of N and P to the tank.


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