10g tank .15 phosphates

[myles4miles]

my 10 gallon tank is at 15nitrates and .15 phosphates, my 60gallon is having phosphate and nitrate problems, but worst 60gallon is a .44, nitrates a 26
and im using Redsea algae management for my 60g, would u guys recommend i use a little in my 10gallon to get it down or just wait for my weekly water change and see where the phosphates stand from there.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Neither set of parameters is a problem unless you're seeing unhappy corals. Algae will be there regardless...

 

[Ooh fiddlesticks]

Odd that your phosphate would be so high while your nitrate is fairly low on both tanks.
26 is higher than I like for my tanks but really it’s not that bad.
With a phosphate of .44 I’d expect nitrate to be approaching 80.
What are you dosing/feeding the tank?

If the 65 were mine I’d start dosing lanthanum chloride SLOWLY like over the course of weeks to bring phos down and do more water changes.
The ten gallon would just get one big water change and then figure out where the phos is coming from.
That’s just me though.

 

[myles4miles]

Odd that your phosphate would be so high while your nitrate is fairly low on both tanks.
26 is higher than I like for my tanks but really it’s not that bad.
With a phosphate of .44 I’d expect nitrate to be approaching 80.
What are you dosing/feeding the tank?

If the 65 were mine I’d start dosing lanthanum chloride SLOWLY like over the course of weeks to bring phos down and do more water changes.
The ten gallon would just get one big water change and then figure out where the phos is coming from.
That’s just me though.

i do weekly water changes on both tanks, I've been battling mag problems, so i dose mag, and now the red sea nopox to help with the phos, and i tested today after buying my own hanna reader its .59. i feed half a cube of mysis in the morning and half at night, none gets sucked into filter it gets eaten within the min, and i feed a snowflake every other day 3 krill. i run a tunze hang on filter and protine skimmer. euphilia in my 65 has been not opening as much as it used to, and one hammerr receeding to the point where i chucked it, and 2 acros, died, cyno bacteria algee stuff, took over abit(thought it was film algea so i never tried to blow away just bought urching and other cleaners). in the 10 gallon my corals look fine.
also just took out a chemipure bag after 3 weeks just replaced it with floss and a sock.

 

[myles4miles]

i do weekly water changes on both tanks, I've been battling mag problems, so i dose mag, and now the red sea nopox to help with the phos, and i tested today after buying my own hanna reader its .59. i feed half a cube of mysis in the morning and half at night, none gets sucked into filter it gets eaten within the min, and i feed a snowflake every other day 3 krill. i run a tunze hang on filter and protine skimmer.

Odd that your phosphate would be so high while your nitrate is fairly low on both tanks.
26 is higher than I like for my tanks but really it’s not that bad.
With a phosphate of .44 I’d expect nitrate to be approaching 80.
What are you dosing/feeding the tank?

If the 65 were mine I’d start dosing lanthanum chloride SLOWLY like over the course of weeks to bring phos down and do more water changes.
The ten gallon would just get one big water change and then figure out where the phos is coming from.
That’s just me though.

also i woke up this morning and after my first 6ml dose of nopox i have a bacteria bloom going on, is that normal? cleaned out the protine skimmer before dosing aswell.?

 

[Ooh fiddlesticks]

also i woke up this morning and after my first 6ml dose of nopox i have a bacteria bloom going on, is that normal? cleaned out the protine skimmer before dosing aswell.?

Yea, bacteria are going to bloom when given a carbon source, they’ll get skimmed out though. It’s temporary.