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So I been struggling on my PO for the past 3 months. I added a GFO reactor and no help. My PO is reading .54 and i tried GFO, but i noticed one of my torches started to bail since. I stopped.

Here are my par

NO - 0
PO - .54
ALK - 8.82
CA - 427
MG - 1376
SAL - 34.5
TMP - 79
PH - 8.17
ORP - 372
 

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So I been struggling on my PO for the past 3 months. I added a GFO reactor and no help. My PO is reading .54 and i tried GFO, but i noticed one of my torches started to bail since. I stopped.

Here are my par

NO - 0
PO - .54
ALK - 8.82
CA - 427
MG - 1376
SAL - 34.5
TMP - 79
PH - 8.17
ORP - 372

First obvious thing from your parameters are the NO3. I would not recommend "0"

Out of curiosity what are you using to test? (Salifert, red sea, Hanna, etc)

Next question would be is your NO3 consistently test that low?
 
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2 weeks ago. my NO read 2.2. I'm using HANNA test kit

First obvious thing from your parameters are the NO3. I would not recommend "0"

Out of curiosity what are you using to test? (Salifert, red sea, Hanna, etc)

Next question would be is your NO3 consistently test that low?
 

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