Phosphate control

[LetItReef]

Hello,

Besides gfo on a reactor, what do you all using in your AIO? Thanks!

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

I use acurel phosphate reducing pads in my Nuvo 20's media racks have been for over a year now with great success.

 

[LetItReef]

I am also using bonded white and blue pads but I will try Acruel. Thanks @nautical_nathaniel

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

I am also using bonded white and blue pads but I will try Acruel. Thanks @nautical_nathaniel

The blue and white pads I use as filter floss. I put the filter floss on the top and bottom sections of the rack with the phosphate pads in the middle.

 

[LetItReef]

Sounds good! Thanks!

 

[LetItReef]

I will try Bacto balls and see how it goes.

 

[tsav87]

Red Sea NOPOX will rid your tank of PO4 quickly, but you don't want 0.00ppm phosphate, it might encourage dinos or cyano. You also don't want your nitrates to hit zero either, same scenario.

If you go with the NOPOX, test every day so that you know what's going on in your system. Keep PO4 at around 0.02 or 0.04 ppm and nitrates around 2 ppm.

 

[tsav87]

Side note, when using NOPOX, I think a protein skimmer is required. I know that mine would pull out the nastiest smelling brown gunk (worse than normal) when I was dosing NOPOX.

 

[Sharkbate]

Hi, I use a bag Rhowaphos and sit it in the filter compartment . I run two Nano systems one has a slimmer the other does not . I don’t aim for zero’s and hardly ever test the figures . I can tell by looking if things are out of whack usually ...1/3 water changes weekly also.