Hello. For the past month I have been struggling to keep my phosphates up and my nitrates just keep climbing. I have a 25g all in one with an aquamaxx 1.5 HOB skimmer and that's all i use for filtration. I noticed that ever since I dosed bacteria (prodibio) it seems that they consume my phosphates very quickly and nothing gets rid of the nitrates produced afterwards. I have dosed Neophos and fed a mixture of reef nutrition foods as well as benepets 3 times a week with my phosphates going as high as 0.02 then 0 24hrs later (using Hanna Phosphate ULR) meanwhile nitrates keep climbing from 14 up to 16.8 until I do a waterchange (Hanna HR).
My overall questions are:
should I just stick to dosing Neophos and gradually increase dosage day by day? i'm not sure if continuous dosing will shock the corals since i'm dosing X amount of phosphate and it keeps getting stripped. Do corals benefit and feed from Neophos as they do from Powdered foods etc?
should I dose reef biofuel in conjunction with Neophos? the bottle states that if no changes appear the system may be carbon limited but BRS stated if you have 0 phosphates you should not carbon dose so there's a contradiction there.
Thanks for any help!
My overall questions are:
should I just stick to dosing Neophos and gradually increase dosage day by day? i'm not sure if continuous dosing will shock the corals since i'm dosing X amount of phosphate and it keeps getting stripped. Do corals benefit and feed from Neophos as they do from Powdered foods etc?
should I dose reef biofuel in conjunction with Neophos? the bottle states that if no changes appear the system may be carbon limited but BRS stated if you have 0 phosphates you should not carbon dose so there's a contradiction there.
Thanks for any help!