Hello again,
Once again I would like to thank this community for all the help and input that has been given for the questions I have posted. I have something else I need some assistance with. Over the course of 2.5 weeks, I went from taking my phosphates down from .2 to .04 using rowaphos in a mesh bag. Once I saw it came to .04 I took the rowaphos out and tested again 24 hours later to see if there was a change, and the phosphate shot back to .11. I am hoping someone can give some advice about how to get this phosphate to stabilize because I do not want to run rowaphos on and off. Would possibly raising my nitrate help the phosphate to stay more stable? Any help would be very appreciated. Thank you!
Here are the tank details:
38 gallon AIO mixed reef
Running media basket with mechanical filtration and rowaphos (since it shot back up) and protein skimmer
Alk: 7.2
Calcium: 440
Phosphate: .11 (from .04 in 24 hours)
Nitrate: 0-1 (based off nyos test kit)
Once again I would like to thank this community for all the help and input that has been given for the questions I have posted. I have something else I need some assistance with. Over the course of 2.5 weeks, I went from taking my phosphates down from .2 to .04 using rowaphos in a mesh bag. Once I saw it came to .04 I took the rowaphos out and tested again 24 hours later to see if there was a change, and the phosphate shot back to .11. I am hoping someone can give some advice about how to get this phosphate to stabilize because I do not want to run rowaphos on and off. Would possibly raising my nitrate help the phosphate to stay more stable? Any help would be very appreciated. Thank you!
Here are the tank details:
38 gallon AIO mixed reef
Running media basket with mechanical filtration and rowaphos (since it shot back up) and protein skimmer
Alk: 7.2
Calcium: 440
Phosphate: .11 (from .04 in 24 hours)
Nitrate: 0-1 (based off nyos test kit)