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Well my tank is progressing nicely, I suffered through brown snot, algal bloom and now GHA all in 4 months.
With the addition of my ATS, I hope to have started the last cycle battle.
The GHA was so bad that it covered all of the tank bare bottom, back glass and all the rocks. The ATS dropped my nitrates to undetectable levels on the Salifert test and Phosphates have come down from 1.5 to .25 currently and the GHA has drastically receded, still have a few tough patches to go.
I have 4 fish in my 130 gallon two 3 plus inch tangs, a 2 plus inch flame angel and a very small algae blenny.
I feed once a day with either Hikari freeze dried spirulina brine shrimp with a pinch of freeze dried mysis or regular freeze dried brine shrimp and mysis along with a quarter sheet of nori every day.
My question is how long do I wait to have the ATS push down the phosphate to .03 or do I attempt to get it there by other means.
And if you reccomend other means, what is the preferred method ie carbon dosing, GFO, or another method.
I have been pouring over threads and videos relating to phosphates and am looking for ideas and recommendations on how to best proceed.
Thanking you in advance!!!
G-
With the addition of my ATS, I hope to have started the last cycle battle.
The GHA was so bad that it covered all of the tank bare bottom, back glass and all the rocks. The ATS dropped my nitrates to undetectable levels on the Salifert test and Phosphates have come down from 1.5 to .25 currently and the GHA has drastically receded, still have a few tough patches to go.
I have 4 fish in my 130 gallon two 3 plus inch tangs, a 2 plus inch flame angel and a very small algae blenny.
I feed once a day with either Hikari freeze dried spirulina brine shrimp with a pinch of freeze dried mysis or regular freeze dried brine shrimp and mysis along with a quarter sheet of nori every day.
My question is how long do I wait to have the ATS push down the phosphate to .03 or do I attempt to get it there by other means.
And if you reccomend other means, what is the preferred method ie carbon dosing, GFO, or another method.
I have been pouring over threads and videos relating to phosphates and am looking for ideas and recommendations on how to best proceed.
Thanking you in advance!!!
G-