Low Nitrate, High Phosphate

[benji427]

Hi, new to the TM line-up. Just got a 150g back up and running after having to pull down and fix the stand.

I decided to try All for reef and NP bacto balance this time around. I've been dosing AFR and NP for about 3 weeks now, just tested and my nitrates are 0 but phosphate is 0.44.

I'm just seeing if anyone has any ideas about how to tackle this, I have some elimi-np that i ordered, haven't yet dosed any though.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

 

[Hans-Werner]

Hi, new to the TM line-up. Just got a 150g back up and running after having to pull down and fix the stand.

I decided to try All for reef and NP bacto balance this time around. I've been dosing AFR and NP for about 3 weeks now, just tested and my nitrates are 0 but phosphate is 0.44.

I'm just seeing if anyone has any ideas about how to tackle this, I have some elimi-np that i ordered, haven't yet dosed any though.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Our organic carbon dosing products dose only very little nitrate which usually is consumed by coral and other growth and mainly organic and other reduced nitrogen compounds.

Do you have any problems with the corals by the reported concentrations? I recommend to mainly watch the corals and if they are well and growing.

 

[benji427]

Hey Hans. Yes, the corals had bleached and I noticed some algae creeping in. I've decided to dose some Elimi-NP for a couple weeks and monitor it before switching back to Bacto Balance.

Any advice?