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All, for the past couple of months I have being battling high phosphate at .90. Since then I have been doing large water changes, dripping phosphate RX in a 10 micron sock at 50% strength weekly few hours before a 25% water change.
I also run 100% carbon and about 50% to 60% GFO via a reactor. It had drop down to now at around .25.
my lepto was receding slowly from the bottom since about 3 weeks ago, lost a couple heads of hammers, and a few sps are not doing so great.
What really concern me is that since last week, my favorite piece of coral, purple bonsai started receding from the bottom as well.
I tested my water and here are the parameters:
coralife marine salt.
salinity 1.025
Mag about 1480 (always high)
Alk 8.5 (being pretty steady)
Cal 438 (being pretty steady)
I set the temp controller at 77, so it always at around 76.5 (maybe increase to 78?)
i had the bonsai acro for a few month and it waS doing fine despite the high phosphate. Since I started running GFO, then it’s dying, I am thinking it’s the GFO stripping it.
currently about 20 fish, 4 shrimps and 2 gobies. I feed 1.5 cube mysis daily and add a cube of Cyclopes and sea weed once per week.
sorry for the long post, any help would be greatly appreciated.
I also run 100% carbon and about 50% to 60% GFO via a reactor. It had drop down to now at around .25.
my lepto was receding slowly from the bottom since about 3 weeks ago, lost a couple heads of hammers, and a few sps are not doing so great.
What really concern me is that since last week, my favorite piece of coral, purple bonsai started receding from the bottom as well.
I tested my water and here are the parameters:
coralife marine salt.
salinity 1.025
Mag about 1480 (always high)
Alk 8.5 (being pretty steady)
Cal 438 (being pretty steady)
I set the temp controller at 77, so it always at around 76.5 (maybe increase to 78?)
i had the bonsai acro for a few month and it waS doing fine despite the high phosphate. Since I started running GFO, then it’s dying, I am thinking it’s the GFO stripping it.
currently about 20 fish, 4 shrimps and 2 gobies. I feed 1.5 cube mysis daily and add a cube of Cyclopes and sea weed once per week.
sorry for the long post, any help would be greatly appreciated.