Thanks in advance, I know I've been posting a lot.
My phosphates were bottomed out and my soft coral all closed up and began to die, algae at the time wasn’t too bad, the hammer and Duncan’s looked good. I began to dose phosphates, I had to dose a lot to get to a detectable range.
Zoas came back but the hammers looked really bad, Duncan was fine. After getting phosphates up to around 0.10 the hammers looked really awful, totally deflated - I’m likely losing one. At the same time the green hair and other algae came on strong. The lower I let my phosphates get the better the hammers look.
Right now I’m getting a 0.00 reading (hanna) but I only have the low range and there is a +/- 4 margin of error. I know I should dose but every time I add phosphates the hammers deflate and I’d like to save the other. But at the same time I’m worried of bottoming out again and hurting the zoas/run the risk of Dino’s. I also know once the algae goes away the drain on the phosphates would stop.
So, should I still be dosing?
My phosphates were bottomed out and my soft coral all closed up and began to die, algae at the time wasn’t too bad, the hammer and Duncan’s looked good. I began to dose phosphates, I had to dose a lot to get to a detectable range.
Zoas came back but the hammers looked really bad, Duncan was fine. After getting phosphates up to around 0.10 the hammers looked really awful, totally deflated - I’m likely losing one. At the same time the green hair and other algae came on strong. The lower I let my phosphates get the better the hammers look.
Right now I’m getting a 0.00 reading (hanna) but I only have the low range and there is a +/- 4 margin of error. I know I should dose but every time I add phosphates the hammers deflate and I’d like to save the other. But at the same time I’m worried of bottoming out again and hurting the zoas/run the risk of Dino’s. I also know once the algae goes away the drain on the phosphates would stop.
So, should I still be dosing?