This is what happens when you overdose phosphate..

[Samala]

Ok, so its not a myth, adding too much phosphate - like I did last week when my roomie knocked me into the tank while holding the phosphate dropper.. - definitely sparks a lovely algae outburst. In less than three days my tank became a lovely green heaven.. or hell.. not sure which. The copepods were very excited I will say.



Very yummy.. kinda looks like that tank in the Nemo movie when the fish kill the filter.. Hard to say whats a plant and whats an algae here...



And here's today, after I did a slight water change, some scraping, and bumped up the nitrate levels so the plants could suck up some of the excess P. Ahhh nutrients.. I thought the first picture was hysterical so I thought I would share.

>Sarah