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Old 08/18/2005, 09:10 AM
Kathy55g Kathy55g is offline
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In reply about the smell: Yep. You right!

With all the talk about trace metals and fertilizer being dosed with the home grown phyto, I wonder if people are taking into consideration that the phyto consume these things, and that it doesn't dissappear. Even if you feed washed phyto to your tank, your phyto eating organisms are getting a dose of whatever the phyto consumed, and they consumed f/2 or whatever the phyto was grown on. So the trace contaminants in the water the phyto is grown in, is a small concentration when diluted in the tank water, compared to the amount the phyto eating corals and inverts are getting from the phyto itself. Who knows if this is not a required nutrient for them anyway?

I hang out with pharmacologists, and the expression goes, "Dose is everything."

Cheers,
Kathy