Hi
I've a waterbox 60.2 been running for a year now, until recently I just did water changes and dosed Red Sea NoPox & reef energy plus.
apart from the first 4 months the phosphate and nitrate have both been pretty high ranging from average Phos 0.55 and Nitrate 48ppm without any apparent ill effects, so I decided to stop the NoPox as it didn't appear to be doing anything, but during a weekly test noticed the KH had dropped from 8.8 - 9.2 to 7.2 so I started dosing Red Sea KH/Alk to get back to 8.8 and I also started running GFO to lower the Phosphate, the problem is The 3 sps frags I had have or are in the process of bleaching, was wondering if its because of the dosing?, I recently added a small toadstool could this be the problem.
Params yesterday at 9pm
salinity - 35ppt
PH - 8.0
Calcium - 430
KH - 8.4
Phosphate - 0.39
Nitrate - 49.4
I've a waterbox 60.2 been running for a year now, until recently I just did water changes and dosed Red Sea NoPox & reef energy plus.
apart from the first 4 months the phosphate and nitrate have both been pretty high ranging from average Phos 0.55 and Nitrate 48ppm without any apparent ill effects, so I decided to stop the NoPox as it didn't appear to be doing anything, but during a weekly test noticed the KH had dropped from 8.8 - 9.2 to 7.2 so I started dosing Red Sea KH/Alk to get back to 8.8 and I also started running GFO to lower the Phosphate, the problem is The 3 sps frags I had have or are in the process of bleaching, was wondering if its because of the dosing?, I recently added a small toadstool could this be the problem.
Params yesterday at 9pm
salinity - 35ppt
PH - 8.0
Calcium - 430
KH - 8.4
Phosphate - 0.39
Nitrate - 49.4