Cleaning up the dirtiest tank ever...

[alan j t]

Could you be more specific, like did you use peroxide, tooth brush, anything to guide me out of my algea jungle.

 

[Myka]

Could you be more specific, like did you use peroxide, tooth brush, anything to guide me out of my algea jungle.

Physical removal with a pot scrubbing brush, and then a small amount of biopellets to lower the nutrients slowly. GFO to bring down the residual PO4.

Triton is a good way to diagnose an elevated metals problem. I just do not know if metals can become problematically high this way, or for that matter, how high is too high for most organisms.

Triton does not distinguish different elemental forms with different toxicity, so a firm good/bad cutoff is impossible, but way more than "normal" of a toxic metal is a warning sign.

Ok, that's fair. I'll give it a shot, and see if it comes up with something. Thank you.