So my tank is just under 2 years old it will be 2 years this november. So i guess my nitrates and phosphates got a bit high recently and i have always struggled testing water because of my color blindness ( even my wife who sees color has difficulty figuring out the readings ) so i have been slowly adding hannah digital readers and they are a big help.
So a few weeks back i got GHA in my tank . I tested my phosphates were at .15 and nitrates were at 20 with who knows how much nutrients in the GHA as well. My skimmer was not operating fully because i was dosing chemiclean 4 weeks before this for cyanobacteria and now my skimmer is finally back online . I have been dosing NOPOX for the last 8 days with the following results
Aug 30 Nitrate 20 Phosphate 0.15
Sept 3 Nitrate 12 Phosphate 0.03
Sept 6 Nitrate 10 Phosphate 0.04
Sept 7 Nitrate 7 Phosphate 0.05
Now i am guessing on my nitrates because like i said the test results are difficult to read for me however the phosphate is used with a hannah checker.
My question is should i continue to does NOPOX ? If anything else what should i be doing ? and why would my phosphate drop so much the first few days and now it is slowly rising up again ? what would cause this?
So a few weeks back i got GHA in my tank . I tested my phosphates were at .15 and nitrates were at 20 with who knows how much nutrients in the GHA as well. My skimmer was not operating fully because i was dosing chemiclean 4 weeks before this for cyanobacteria and now my skimmer is finally back online . I have been dosing NOPOX for the last 8 days with the following results
Aug 30 Nitrate 20 Phosphate 0.15
Sept 3 Nitrate 12 Phosphate 0.03
Sept 6 Nitrate 10 Phosphate 0.04
Sept 7 Nitrate 7 Phosphate 0.05
Now i am guessing on my nitrates because like i said the test results are difficult to read for me however the phosphate is used with a hannah checker.
My question is should i continue to does NOPOX ? If anything else what should i be doing ? and why would my phosphate drop so much the first few days and now it is slowly rising up again ? what would cause this?