DeltecI am only seeing DRS ez carbon overseas and in euros, is there an US supplier?
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DeltecI am only seeing DRS ez carbon overseas and in euros, is there an US supplier?
what do you use for dosing Nitrate? My nitrate is near 0 but my phosphates are relatively high. Thanks For your help.I dose nitrate, the phosphates then drop, never could keep nitrates up enough to naturally consume it.
I have a softies tank so i run .03 to.05 ppm i found a pad that is rechargeable and works great at removing ammonia phosphate and all heavy metals love itToday let's talk about.......Mitigating High Phosphates In Your Reef Aquarium...dum dum dum!
Angry Phosphate Man
The first thing we need to get out of the way is that fact that phosphates is not something that can be avoided. It can't be avoided but it can certainly be minimized. Why is that important? Well if you like uncontrollable algae then you need not worry about your level of tank phosphates. BUT if you're like most reef aquarium hobbyists then you want a clear, beautiful and nuisance algae free tank! So if phosphates can't be avoided then how do you mitigate it in your aquarium? Let's talk about it!
1. What can you do to keep phosphates under control and at levels that you are comfortable with? What are some things YOU do?
2. What is a comfortable level of phosphates for you in your aquarium?
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I’m very concerned but for a different reason. I use the Salifert test to test and I can’t get a reading. I read zero and this is after dosing almost a full Bottle of phosphate From brightwell. Ugh
Oh crap! Lol. Makes sense I’m going to to get the checker. I’ve been thru one bottle of neophos so far. Thanks!I fell into that trap as well. After getting 0 ppm with API, I grabbed a Salifert kit which also read 0 ppm. I started dosing some Phosphate, thinking my issues were from such a low level. After a few days of that and no movement in the readings, I bought the Hanna ULR Phosphorous kit, I realized my mistake. Since then, I've been having a hard time bringing the level down to something reasonable
I tested mine yesterday.
Phosphate - .72
Nitrate - 75
Flippantly?I think that it might be good for everybody to understand that there are some big-time differences between some of the tanks that people flippantly post about. I have corals that would not live and thrive in tanks with higher phosphate levels, but I also have plenty that would not care at all. Depending on what people want to keep, there can be a huge difference... not better or worse, just different. I would not be happy at all growing only the type of corals that are thriving in some of these tanks, but this is just me and I don't expect anybody else to feel the same way that I do.
I would lose half my acropora, probably, under .72 P and 75 N, but plenty would live too... the same kinds that are in that tank. Again, not better or worse, just different.
Let's don't apples to apples this stuff. Somebody might want one kind of tank or another and it is important to point out the differences.
oh - you are talking about my build thread, not this thread?I think that posting about what a "disaster" that obviously happy tanks with higher P levels is pretty flippant. "Pollution" or "sewage" is along the same lines. If you seriously meant that your tank and others are a disaster and that you wish that it was different with respect to the phosphate level, then let me know and I will apologize. It did not seem serious to me.
For the record, I don't like the flippant comments or assertion that somehow natural levels are Ultra Low or that tanks that are natural somehow are death sentences either. I hate it both ways.
I desire and need P nearer to NSW to keep what I keep. I don't make any kind of statements that this is better, cleaner or more pure. It just is what it is. I would rather spend my time explaining the differences to people so that they understand how to care for what they have.
I do point out some of the things that lower P can do and spend a lot of time explains phosphate binding to aragonite, which should be pre-req to having a tank. I also explain that P is a building block, not fuel and that nothing in their tank eats it like food. I do not recall ever saying that lower or higher was better in general, but one or the other might be good in some circumstances. These circumstances cannot really be discussed if have a flippant attitude towards tanks on either side.