phosphate high

Hi everyone. I have a 30-gallon tank, with 6 fish, a few RFAs, and soft corals. My phosphates spiked this week, going from about 0.05 to 0.9 ppm on the Hanna checker! (They may have been higher, but that's as high as the checker goes.) A large water changed and some of the Brightwell...

Hi All, In short, I need to reduce my phosphates. I will being doing water changes now that I've fixed my RODI issue, but I am wondering what the best one time punch phosphate sponge is to speed up this process. Back story for those interested: Had a reefing blunder this past month that I am...

Hi All, I wondered if anyone had experienced the same issue as me. I usually use Caribsea Live sand but as i have just upsized quite considerably and cycling a new tank i was advised by LFS that the TMC Ecosand would be absolutely fine. Did the first round of Parameter checks and i have never...

I have a COR20 on my 100 gallon DT, 34 gallon sump (it's trigger sapphire 34). Whenever I do any sort of dosing, I generally just say 100 gallons. I've been having a problem with high nutrients. For example, my phosphates yesterday were 0.34ppb (Hanna ULR). I run GFO mixed with Carbon in a...

So i recently had a major issue with my euphylllia Coral. It had nearly died completely. When i tested my water i was at nearly 12 dkh. With nearly 0ppm phosphate and nitrate. I started dosing coral Amino and polyp booster daily along with my regular feeding. Now about 2 weeks later the coral...

I have a 7 month old ~3g reef tank containing a faviitees, stone pipe coral, GSP, palythoa, and hydnophora + clean up crew (1 Scarlett hermit crab, 2 blue legged hermit crabs, 5 bumblebee snails and 1 tuxedo urchin). Ever since I’ve started testing calcium, my Hanna reader shows that my calcium...