phosphate questions…help and imput

[neoh]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

A little off topic, but I think you should look for other reasons your fish died. A sudden change in Phosphates from even a a few tens of ppm to 0 ppm would not have had any effect on a fish. I'm not sure any change in phosphate at any range would affect a fish, unless the phosphates were near toxic levels to begin with (which for a fish would be very, very, very high).

It wasn't because of phosphates, read the post again.

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by neoh

It wasn't because of phosphates, read the post again.

Oh sorry man, I must have misinterpreted, but the bolded sentence:

Originally Posted by neoh

I used Rowaphos until switching to a high capacity GFO from BRS. When I ran out, I switched back to Rowaphos, which I noticed an almost immediate change in PO4 and algae outbreaks. But I also lost a couple fish, which I attributed to using too much, which then stripped nutrients from the tank causing their very unfortunate demise.

reads pretty clearly as though you are attributing the demise of the fish to a drop in nutrients. Do you mean you thought that the rowaphos itself killed the fish?