Help/advice Reducing Phosphates

[troliva0007]

Hello to everyone, fairly new on here.
I have a 60gal cube w/ 5 gal sump
I don’t current have any chaeto or macro algae for nutrient export. I’ve been having high phosphates 0.90 , corals are okay

03/07/22
(Hanna test)
Salinity .23
8 PH
10 Alkaline
.90 phosphate
44.9 nitrates
Did a 25% water change yesterday.
Usually it’s every 3 weeks but now I’ve been working every two weeks water change. I used to feed reef roids. Now I only do Red Sea AB+, I appreciate any advice in this topic in advance.

 

[blaxsun]

It's not just high phosphates - you have fairly high nitrates as well. I can't tell what you have dor filtration beyond the skimmer. Something like NOPOX would probably work (though it will take a few weeks).

 

[troliva0007]

Oh okay, I’ve been trying the brightwell phosphate E to bring down 0.5ppm per 2.5 ml every 4-5 days as it shows on the bottle. Did a chemiclean for cyano… Don’t have outbreaks on the Algae since my turbo snails do a great job already
I have chemi pure on my return pump,
protein skimmer on 24/7 and
I have bio blocks in the refugium chamber ,
I clean out the filter mesh sock every time I do my water change but I see no results with the phosphate E. Been doing that for the past month I’m starting to believe it takes more time to see any change at all?