Ammonium and water soluble P are highly desirable. We just keep plenty of habitat for the things that like it by removing them in their incorporated states. We don't wait on them to break back down again.
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then later
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It doesn't just sit there and not change or anything you know.
Ah, so you sit there and wait for it to be broken down to organic forms before removal?
In fact, removal by bacteria that are skimmed, and removal by macroalgae that are harvested are not all that different, are they