Do I need to do anything ?

[sunil6784]

Hi all,

I am finishing up a chemiclean treatment (in hour 42) After fighting cyano for about 5 weeks or so, I gave in.

Tested the water, nitrates are at 9.2 ppm, and PO4 is at .153 ppm. All checked with Hanna checkers.

Tank is about 5 months old. Very low maintenance, tank will be a softie/leather/zoa tank. Have a few of each so far. No fuge, no filter socks. Just a skimmer and UV.

It looks like I have some turf algae or GHA starting. I'm not worried about it, but wondering if my PO4 is high enough to worry about ?

I could run a GFO reactor, or fuge, or both. Id prefer not to just to keep the tank simple. Wondering if the .15 of PO4 is anything of concern ?

To note, I have minimal CUC..need to beef that up.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

For a softie tank I think its fine, even for lps I think its fine. I would not run a GFO unless you have rocks that leach phosphate.

For this tiny amount of po4 , I add one or two drops of phosphate-e or phosban-l or something like that, and it drops down to about .05

 

[noobreefer2]

Idk. po4 seems pretty high to me, if you want to get rid of algae, you have to get rid of its source of food (Phosphate and nitrate) even nitrate could be lowered a bit.

 

[Cell]

Tank is too new to be messing with chemicals and chasing numbers imo.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Idk. po4 seems pretty high to me, if you want to get rid of algae, you have to get rid of its source of food (Phosphate and nitrate) even nitrate could be lowered a bit.

Not really. Tank is new and the nitrate and phosphate levels are not high at all.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Idk. po4 seems pretty high to me, if you want to get rid of algae, you have to get rid of its source of food (Phosphate and nitrate) even nitrate could be lowered a bit.

Of course, this thread was started 4 months ago so who knows what the tank is doing now, lol.

 

[Cell]

Dangit.

 

[noobreefer2]

Of course, this thread was started 4 months ago so who knows what the tank is doing now, lol.

Yeah, that's my point... I was just listing a reason why they could have algae. I feel like getting numbers down eventually would help with a possible algae problem in the future.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Yeah, that's my point... I was just listing a reason why they could have algae. I feel like getting numbers down eventually would help with a possible algae problem in the future.

Probably not though.