DaTrucka
03-27-2010, 05:04 PM
Hi.
Past weeks i have spent some hours listening to the podcasts in the truck, love them all so far. Time flies on the roads when doing this.
In one of the live sessions (can't remember whitch one), someone called in with high phosphate issues.
He had high phosphates but could not get them down.
If i rember correctly he also had undetctable nitrates with his test kit.
I was surprised that no one mentioned that, phosphates and nitrates are linked together in some strange way. The bacteria just cant "eat" phosphates if no nitrates are present, and vice versa. That however is fairly easy to fix with some kind of phosban. Or a tiny addition of nitrates.
And if it's the other way around.
I had undetectable phosphates and high nitrates, and just couldn't figure out why. After trying practically every biological way, vodka additions, zeovit method, aso... Still high nitrates. I really didn't wat to use sulphur filters and such. I came across a post in our swedish forum (http://www.saltvattensguiden.se), that stated this very clear.
So i stopped rinsing my frozen food, as most of you know some are known to have some levels of phosphates. And just like magic the nitrates droppes from 50ish down to 5 in two weeks, another week or so both phosphates and nitrates are undetectable. Once the levels were down i started to rinse the frozen food again, an i have not had any issues with that since.
Just a tip on how i battled this.
Past weeks i have spent some hours listening to the podcasts in the truck, love them all so far. Time flies on the roads when doing this.
In one of the live sessions (can't remember whitch one), someone called in with high phosphate issues.
He had high phosphates but could not get them down.
If i rember correctly he also had undetctable nitrates with his test kit.
I was surprised that no one mentioned that, phosphates and nitrates are linked together in some strange way. The bacteria just cant "eat" phosphates if no nitrates are present, and vice versa. That however is fairly easy to fix with some kind of phosban. Or a tiny addition of nitrates.
And if it's the other way around.
I had undetectable phosphates and high nitrates, and just couldn't figure out why. After trying practically every biological way, vodka additions, zeovit method, aso... Still high nitrates. I really didn't wat to use sulphur filters and such. I came across a post in our swedish forum (http://www.saltvattensguiden.se), that stated this very clear.
So i stopped rinsing my frozen food, as most of you know some are known to have some levels of phosphates. And just like magic the nitrates droppes from 50ish down to 5 in two weeks, another week or so both phosphates and nitrates are undetectable. Once the levels were down i started to rinse the frozen food again, an i have not had any issues with that since.
Just a tip on how i battled this.