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.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/diy-ammonia-dosing-chart.1123913/