phosphates

I had a dino outbreak about 5 weeks ago. In the 2 months before the outbreak, I observed PO4 trending down steadily. It had been stable in the 0.08 range through summer and early fall, then from Sep.4 to 25 it dropped from 0.06 to 0.00 (6 different tests, each time lower) and went into emergecny...

hi all - i'm at a point in my first tank about 6 weeks old where I'm trying to figure out a good method to lower my consistently higher phosphates both in the short term and long term.. They're hovering around .15 right now but have been in the range of .15 - .2 for the past month. I'm...

Hello everyone, my refugium has been running for around 10 or 15 days now and it dropped my no2 and no3 to undetectable levels. My phosphates are still pretty high (po4>2ppm). My temp, ph, dkh, calcium, mg, sr, iodine and salinity are all constantly perfect, and all my livestock are thriving...

Hello, I've been trying to lower my Phosphates as of recent by using gfo. They aren't awful but they are definitely higher than I would like and seem pretty off with the ratio to my nitrates. A quick rundown of tank and params: 32.5 gallon tank Running for about a year and a few months Slightly...

Hi everyone, I have a 15 gallon nano almost a year old. Unfortunately, it is the coral 12G tank, so I'm aware the pump and lights are not the best, but I've slowly been upgrading it. The tank has been fine but I upgraded all my testing kits and the phosphates have been obsurd. Parameters...

Near new Trident NP. Works well for me. Comes with original box. No reagents. Ships for 25 dollars. Nutrients have been very stable on my aquarium, so I will part with this trident, and let someone else use it.

Hi all. Just after a little bit of advice please. So my latest tank (Red Sea 350) I started from scratch with new dry tock, live sand and a bacteria start potion. It's been setup for around 4 weeks now and has a pair of maroon clowns and a tang along with a cleanup crew of all sorts. My...

I've had my tank up for 3 years now, manmade rock, and a finer substrate and I've been noticing that my phosphates will climb at a very rapid rate (day one will be .12, then 2 days later will increase to .2). I feed frozen food and nori daily, and have not changed what or how much I've fed or...

I have had a FOWLR tank for a few years… I recently just started adding corals. Only 3 so far. I was dealing with high phos so I added chemi pure elite and that took it down to 0.10 and I stopped using it. A couple of days ago I rescaped my tank. Broke down the live rock and just changed how...

Hi all. Long story short... I bought some cruddy USED LR years ago, jet washed and scrubbed all the algae and mess off of it, soaked it in RO and then setup a tank. Never had the best results and then when I moved house I let it dry out thinking it would kill all the nitrates and phosphates with...

I’m an intermediate reefer and I have my main display which is a 100 gallon tank sps dominant mixed reef and that tank blooms with healthy corals and full of fish and I have been successful in controlling nutrients and chemistry. Anyways I have a 13.5 gallon tank (fluval evo) I’ve been running...

Is Kalkwasser a tool available to use to lower phosphate levels? Further, do all 2 part Alk & Calc additives bind with, thus lowering, phosphates? After watching a Tidal Gardens video that mentioned using Kalkwasser as a way to lower phosphates, I came across some information and some older...

Hi all, I tested my water Friday, did a water change and tested again today (Sunday.) My phosphates rose from .8 to 1.6 over that time span. The only thing I did between the tests is add a small amount of phytoplankton and feed slightly heavier. My Phosphates have always stayed at .6-.8 which...

I'm looking to get either a roller filter, or an algae turf scrubber to help control phosphates and nitrates (don't want refugium, use GFO/Rowaphos, a bio pellet reactor, or NOPOX). Who has a favorite that won't bottom out nutrients?

Hello reefing community, My parameters are: Nitrates 8.5 Phosphates .01/.02 Alk 8 Mg 1450 Calcium 440 I have some few hair algae. My corals look like if they are starving. My question is. Should i get my phosphates higher?

We have a very nice Elegance which has been a picture of health until about a week ago (don’t have a pic of the change). It had been moved due to our Bella Goby digging it out and needing to return the sand into place to put it about where it had been prior. It has always tolerated sand being...

Hey folks, So I recently discovered my phosphates were slowly rising (5ppm peak) after a few of my corals looked sad, and snails seemed to have given up on life. I wasn’t able to reduce them enough through export or less feeding, so I resorted to dosing 5ml of NOPOX per day which is doing the...

Struggling to pin down my phosphates… Tank is approaching 1 year old. Had mature media from a previous tank. For the past month I’m struggling to keep my phosphates stable. Started off with chaeto in a light reactor. Nutrients were low and stable. Found phosphates slowly rising a couple months...

My tank is 350 litre and about a year old. I’ve never had problems with phosphates in the past, but as of recently in the last month they just won’t seem to go down. I bought a TDS meter for my RODI and it’s at 0, and even then I switched them all out to be sure. I’m dosing rowa in a reactor and...

Hi! Now I continue to study marine aquarium and there is some misunderstanding, how many nitrates and phosphates should I have? I want to contain a mixed reef: simple SPS, LPS, zoanthuses and discoactinias. Some say that it is necessary to keep NO3 and PO4 at 5 and 0.1, respectively, but others...

I've read that these phosphate reducers can impact your fish and corals so I want to be very cautious about dosing. I've doing some reading. So right now, my phosphates are around 0.37 ppm. My goal, at least for now, is to get it to 0.1 ppm. Based on the following website...

Good afternoon, I have a 22 gal long tank, with a toadstool, singularia, kenya tree, frogspawn, derasa clam, and a pulsing xenia. The tank is 11 months old. My biggest worry is my Sinularia coral. I recently went on a 3 week long TDY to florida, and had my mom take care of my tank while I was...

I think I just nuked my 21g nano tank. I was working on my phosphate dosing tube that had an air pockets problem. I let it it run for quite a while but there wasn’t happening much, thought there was a blockage somewhere in the tube. .. until I figured I was checking the wrong dosing tube. I...

Recently got a new 15 gallon tank and just tested after adding zoas and a gsp frag. Noticed they weren’t doing well compared to my 13.5 tank. These are the results. Need help in trying to figure out a solution. Doing a water change now hoping it’ll help. Tank has a filter sock and filter floss...

Hello again! Sorry for such a basic and dumb question.. I'm just at a complete loss. I swear I thought I've done everything right, yet I just don't know why my Ammonia won't drop to 0. Here are my parameters... I've been having issues keeping Alk and Magnesium lower as well. It must be the salt...