Pardon me for parsing your post. Yea... Products like the NP & MB7 line, Waste Away, and other bacteria in a bottle products are one of the issues that spurred me to to start this thread. There seems to be a host of uses for these products from controlling N&P to helping with the decomposition of solid wastes and other organic compounds in the tank. We haven't talked much about those products yet. However the discussions we've had so far should help us when we do....this is where my question comes in, because i originally bought the elimi np to get phosphates down...however, here i am with a imbalance of phosphate vs nitrate... I would also like to know more about the options with carbon dosing... it seems that carbon dosing should help eliminate nitrate... Would carbon dosing with the tropic marin bacto balance help with that.