haha, yes I did reply to my own post. Sorry, I could've just pulled the thread since I concluded my own answer I guess but I thought it might help someone else to stay away from the discus buffer if they had a planted tank and didn't realize how potent the phosphates were in it.
I tested the phosphates with 2 tests. An API liquid test showed the extremely high levels of 10ppm (as high as their test reads... dark dark blue)
I had to dump 40 gallons of my premade RO water because of it. I'm starting a new trash can of RO water... Now with straight RO water I'm reading 0 ppm. I'm glad I checked before I continued to dump in my tank because I honestly thought it didn't affect it and I bought the HUGE container of the discus buffer thinking this was the solve all to my discus prep... I only adjusted the water from 7.0 to 6.8 and that 0.2 in PH really just made my phosphate levels unusable so I will leave the RO water alone in the future and drop the ph with the CO2 I'm pumping in the .01 I need to go... Oh well, live and learn, a week of running my little RO unit will get me back to where I was with another 40 gallons of good RO water.
