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Old 05-29-2013, 03:09 AM
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Yeah the phosphates are up. Now I added chemi pure elite a week ago to help and it made it much much worse. I know a lot of people love chemi pure but I will never ever use it again. It made my tank cloudy and much worse. Ppm coming out of the API was 3ppm
I am not sure but you might be blaming the wrong sources I can't comment on the tap water issue but chemi pure works. It won't lower high amount of phosphate but it won't make anything worse. Something is wrong with something inside the tank. Just my 0.05c!
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Old 05-29-2013, 03:19 AM
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I am not sure but you might be blaming the wrong sources I can't comment on the tap water issue but chemi pure works. It won't lower high amount of phosphate but it won't make anything worse. Something is wrong with something inside the tank. Just my 0.05c!
Defiantly not blaming chemi pure but I am defiantly not a fan. It even says helps remove phosphates.l, and it didn't do a damn thing but make my water cloudy.
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Old 05-29-2013, 03:22 AM
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Defiantly not blaming chemi pure but I am defiantly not a fan. It even says helps remove phosphates.l, and it didn't do a damn thing but make my water cloudy.
"Helps" remove phosphate to some extend (if any, it just helps keeping the phosphate low in a already low-phosphate tank). And since you have algae growing, the amount of gfo in chemi pure will do nothing; it might have died as soon as it went into the tank :P I am 100% sure the cloudy water was not caused by carbon; it simply not what carbon does.
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I know it's not supposed to, but even google it man I'm not the only one. When I had my 10g nano I decided to use chemi pure elite and It did the same thing. I decided to give it a second chance and i regret it.
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I have ro/di water 0ppm. Should I change 50% or what can I do?
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I would probably do a 50% or more water change to help lower the lvl and then run some kind of media to help reduce it further till it gets to a manageable lvl.
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I have ro/di water 0ppm. Should I change 50% or what can I do?
That would be a wise idea. Make sure that other than the nutrients, the parameters of the changing water is not very off compared to the tank water.
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