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My waterbox 35.2 AIO was stable for a while at phosphate .12.
I then had a moderate cyano outbreak that was hanging on. I removed 95% manually, repeatedly, but it wasn’t enough so I used chemiclean to kick the last vestiges.
A week later my phosphates were .51. I don’t think I have room for a reactor so I used hc GFO in a media bag under one of my filter socks. Phosphate got even higher. I thought maybe I didn’t change the bag quickly enough and tried a fresh bag, no change at all.
I added phosguard instead and four days later I was at .08. It says in the instructions to change the bag if you’re not at .02 so I did, I’m happy with .08 but didnt want it creeping up again. 4 days into the new bag I was back up at .22. Changed the bag again and now I’m at .25 two days in, I don’t anticipate it will drop.
i don’t have lots of algae dying off. Just a teeny bit of hair algae that came with the first spike that my CUC is taking care of. Bioload is low. Feeding isnt excessive and possibly isnt enough. My best guess is the GFO/phosguard isnt getting enough flow in the media bag? But my chambers are all full so I don’t know how to make a reactor work. What can I do?
I then had a moderate cyano outbreak that was hanging on. I removed 95% manually, repeatedly, but it wasn’t enough so I used chemiclean to kick the last vestiges.
A week later my phosphates were .51. I don’t think I have room for a reactor so I used hc GFO in a media bag under one of my filter socks. Phosphate got even higher. I thought maybe I didn’t change the bag quickly enough and tried a fresh bag, no change at all.
I added phosguard instead and four days later I was at .08. It says in the instructions to change the bag if you’re not at .02 so I did, I’m happy with .08 but didnt want it creeping up again. 4 days into the new bag I was back up at .22. Changed the bag again and now I’m at .25 two days in, I don’t anticipate it will drop.
i don’t have lots of algae dying off. Just a teeny bit of hair algae that came with the first spike that my CUC is taking care of. Bioload is low. Feeding isnt excessive and possibly isnt enough. My best guess is the GFO/phosguard isnt getting enough flow in the media bag? But my chambers are all full so I don’t know how to make a reactor work. What can I do?