Nitrate and Phosphate imbalance help

[hbryan14]

I can not get these two back in balance. I have a 3 year old reef and my nitrates are around 3 but my phosphates are .25-.4. I tried dosing neonitro to bring nitrates up and usually itll bring phosphates down but instead when I dose neonitro it makes my phosphate sky rocket. My LPS (acans, hammers, candy canes, chalice) are receding. All my acans are really taking a hit and I'm losing all of them. I've also tried using microbacter7 with neonitro and it still seems like its not working. I have a good skimmer and filter roller. I'm at a lost. Please help!!

 

[GHOSTLY]

You could use phosguard which ive had success with in a reef tank from .8 phos down to under .1 but you risk shocking corals. Do a couple rounds of gfo until you get into the right range over the span of 2 months. If you wanna do it quick though multiple half doses of phosguard replaced every 4 days would work. Important to figure out the root cause though

 

[exnisstech]

Ammonium to raise nitrates and some gfo if you want to reduce phosphate would be easy enough to do. I have no comment on your ratio because it's not something I've ever worried about ratios, I leave that for the folks that enjoy math.

PS I've never used any commercial bottles of juice.

 

[hbryan14]

Ive been also doing some phospate-e from brightwell. It will start to bring it down but as soon as I dose neonitro to get my nitrates up, it will push phosphates back up

 

[exnisstech]

I love ammonium bicarb for raising nitrates. Its all I use in this tank. I've never noticed it having any effect on PO4

RHF came up with the recipe and miamireef was kind enough to post this dosing calculator.

DIY Ammonia Dosing Chart

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