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Originally Posted by Chasmodes
Thanks McPuff, I appreciate the suggestion and will give it a try. I'm tired of looking at that stuff. I shy away from chemical solutions, but I'm a bit at my wits end.
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I think that Chemi Clean is more than a chemical treatment. It is biochemical. I think it is probiotic bacteria but I don’t know. Because I don’t test, I view cynobacteria as my test for excess phosphate.
Howerver, be aware of how cynobacteria gets its food to grow. Through “nitrogen fixation” cynobacteria removes an inert dissolved nitrogen gas molecule from the water column and consumes a nitrate molecule. Randy Holmes Farley discribes an auto feed back look where cynobacteria convert inorganic calcium phosphate into organic phosphate and uptake into biomass.