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Originally Posted by Hypancistrus
Nitrates and phosphates coming from fish and fish food has been the standard practice of the Europeans, Dutch, and Asians for quite some time now. It works great for them, and they always beat the Americans in the big contests.
Take a look at the majority of the published ADA specs and tanks, and they don't dose nitrates and phosphates. ADA does make their own nitrate + phosphate product, and they themselves don't use it on the majority of their high light, CO2 injected tanks.
It's the Americans who got behind the whole EI thing with "nitrates and phosphates don't cause algae, buy farm products and dump loads of them in." And it's always people following these techniques that have loads of problems.
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Nitrates and phosphates coming from fish and fish food is fine in a low light setting, that is stupid in a highlight tank. you would completely pollute the water trying to keep enough NPK added.
Seriously, wouldn't you agree?
What exactly are you trying to say? because it all sounds a little naive to me,
algae is algae, plants are plants, water is water and NPK is NPK.
I use this so called EI and "dump" loads of farm bought ferts into my tanks, and funny thing is, I don't have loads of problems except for what I cause by mis-use of either light or C02.
It is all in what you know and how you use it.
My tanks all look very good and grow just the same, I care nothing for a contest because I have other cares in life.
I do however enjoy growing plants and how the tanks look in my house, I am sure if I wanted to enter a contest, I would not have a problem scoring.
That is not my cup of tea.
Your post sounds angry and grudgingly apposed of "farm ferts".
Help me understand? are you saying we should not use them and that they are bad for our tanks?
KISS
