Balancing Nitrate and Phosphate

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Welcome to R2R and your new reefing family. Just did the Chemiclean treatment a couple of weeks ago for the first time. Worked like a charm. Now I just have to get to the root of it, which is the hard part as described by others above.

 

[TexAgReefer]

Howdy and welcome to R2R!! Tank looks great!

 

[Billldg]

Just dosed 600mg of chemiclean, which is a touch under my water volume, as it's 65g!

Will report back, thanks all for the replies. Have great growth and colour, just a shame that the cyano is there.

Also, the rock has been identified to release silicates and phosphate into the water. It's a pretty new product here in the UK, and I couldn't resist ultra light branches for a rockscape!

Please, let us know how it go's. I have used it once and I have to say my sps actually looked better after, go figure. Once the cyano is gone, then you can start to look and see what caused the cyano.

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

 

[Brandon Smith]

 

[Reefnman2]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[BeejReef]

Welcome

.02p strikes me as a touch low on a new tank, but wouldn't sweat it. More flow seems to help w cyano

 

[Terrapod]

Welcome

.02p strikes me as a touch low on a new tank, but wouldn't sweat it. More flow seems to help w cyano

It's not a new tank however - it's been running nearly 3 years, I just changed out all the rock for a new lighter artificial branch rock.

 

[Gernader]

Welcome to R2R!!

 

[Reeferdude1888]

Hi if you run chemi clean remember to make sure your water is we'll oxygenated during the treatment Time and then perform water change afterwords ,chemi clean is great for getting rid of ceano I've used it on a couple of occasions hope this was helpful.

 

[reef lover]

Welcome to r2r!

 

[Terrapod]

Hi and welcome from the UK. Very friendly and knowledgeable folk on here, you will love it.
Stay safe

Yes, seems to be great so far. Any photos of your tank build yet? I was following on UR, keen to see the setup!

 

[Johny Cash]

welcome!!

I have heard many success stories, with elevated No3 and Po4 every tank is different, now we all know that 16:1 is Redfield ratio, however that doesn't apply to our home aquariums, much or less i have done ton of research on this topic anywhere from 16:1, 10:1, 8:1, I hope that you will find your ratio that works for you, as mentioned above your are not far off.

I added a link below, for some of the masters water parameters have a take a look. Bringing up No3 may help in your case

Tank Parameters Of Some Masters

Tank Parameters Of Some Masters To this day one of the most frequently asked questions I get, and actually that many “old time hobbyists” get is “How do I get rid of the algae in my tank. My first question then is “what are the parameters of...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Daniel92481]

Welcome to R2R!

Up your flow 20%, wait 2 weeks, and reevaluate. Cyano might be gone. In my tank, I try to keep nitrates at 2, phosphates at <0.1.

 

[SPR1968]

The levels seem fine to me, so Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[NeSsyAqua]

Welcome to R2R!! Nice setup.

 

[Terrapod]

Welcome to R2R!

Up your flow 20%, wait 2 weeks, and reevaluate. Cyano might be gone. In my tank, I try to keep nitrates at 2, phosphates at <0.1.

I have found SPS do better with nitrates around 10. Colour and polyps particularly!

 

[windemerejack]

Yes, seems to be great so far. Any photos of your tank build yet? I was following on UR, keen to see the setup!

Im not putting it on UR for reasons best unsaid.
Im still in the planning stage so nothing to report yet, but when i get everything planned ill start the thread on here so people can tell me whats good and bad and take it from there.

 

[SPR1968]

Im not putting it on UR for reasons best unsaid.

I wonder what you could mean here! lol

 

[Terrapod]

Im not putting it on UR for reasons best unsaid.
Im still in the planning stage so nothing to report yet, but when i get everything planned ill start the thread on here so people can tell me whats good and bad and take it from there.

You should say?

I just left UR for bullying from the "the Sunday club" .

Was the tank not due for delivery at Xmas? Have you not got anything set up yet?