Last 2 weeks, my parameters were all put of wack. Now I've got everything in range, but can't budge my phosphate. New test kit and is showing in line with what my lfs had a few weeks ago.
Nitrate - 6 hanna checker
Phosphate - 2.5 ppm salifert
Salinity - 1.026
Mag - 1480
Cal - 380
Weekly 15% water change, checked my rodi after reading some threads. Get 0.05 phosphate, so changed all my filters and still read 0.05 although tds is at 0. I run rowaphos in a reactor lightly fluidized in my return chamber. Have a large Refugium with a 5 gallon bucket worth of cheato I've grown from a small ball from Algae Barn over the last year. Giant pod population. I used to feed 3x a day but very small amounts, now i feed 2x. Its home made food from the market, but it does have a small amount of flake and pellet food mixed in. 1 sheet of nori a day. They eat it all. I'm sure they would love more but I'm not sure what to do. Over the last 2 weeks, I've easily done 400% water change trying to bring it down. 30% one day, 30% the next, so on. My phosphates have not moved. I'm at my max of 300g of rowaphos in my reactor, which is a lot on a 220.
Suggestions???
Everyone looks okay. But they were also sitting in 40ppm nitrate so anything would be happier now. Corals all have color, nems opened back up and slowly coming out, I just don't want any issues.
Nitrate - 6 hanna checker
Phosphate - 2.5 ppm salifert
Salinity - 1.026
Mag - 1480
Cal - 380
Weekly 15% water change, checked my rodi after reading some threads. Get 0.05 phosphate, so changed all my filters and still read 0.05 although tds is at 0. I run rowaphos in a reactor lightly fluidized in my return chamber. Have a large Refugium with a 5 gallon bucket worth of cheato I've grown from a small ball from Algae Barn over the last year. Giant pod population. I used to feed 3x a day but very small amounts, now i feed 2x. Its home made food from the market, but it does have a small amount of flake and pellet food mixed in. 1 sheet of nori a day. They eat it all. I'm sure they would love more but I'm not sure what to do. Over the last 2 weeks, I've easily done 400% water change trying to bring it down. 30% one day, 30% the next, so on. My phosphates have not moved. I'm at my max of 300g of rowaphos in my reactor, which is a lot on a 220.
Suggestions???
Everyone looks okay. But they were also sitting in 40ppm nitrate so anything would be happier now. Corals all have color, nems opened back up and slowly coming out, I just don't want any issues.