phosphate questions…help and imput

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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?