Hello Guys:
I am going to describe my problem to see if any of you can give me a help.
I have serious problems bringing up the phosphates on my aquarium, my tank is a 45 gal 60x60 cm cube with only SPS on it, most of them Acroporas, but I have some Seriatoporas and montiporas that are doing not so great as the acros..
My parameters are:
Density: 1.025
No3: 5ppm
kH: 7.5-8
Ca: 420-430ppm
K: 390
Temp: 25.6 C
ORP: 470
pH: 8.3 - 8.45
I have only 3 small fishes on the tank, running Zeovit and a Skimmer rated for 220 Gal, a Deltec APF600 with a Red Dragon Pump.
The thing is, no matter how much food I throw on the tank, I am not able to bring up the phosphates, most of the corals are really light in color, and I would love to bring up that to..at least 0.04 or 0.05ppm of PO4 to see an improvement in color.
Also I would like to lower my ORP a little bit.
Not sure if the skimmer is too big for my tank, I have a small quantity of fishes, I have a big quantity of SPS corals (which I have indeed) or a combination of all of them.
Any advice on this?
What would be your approach on this?
I am going to describe my problem to see if any of you can give me a help.
I have serious problems bringing up the phosphates on my aquarium, my tank is a 45 gal 60x60 cm cube with only SPS on it, most of them Acroporas, but I have some Seriatoporas and montiporas that are doing not so great as the acros..
My parameters are:
Density: 1.025
No3: 5ppm
kH: 7.5-8
Ca: 420-430ppm
K: 390
Temp: 25.6 C
ORP: 470
pH: 8.3 - 8.45
I have only 3 small fishes on the tank, running Zeovit and a Skimmer rated for 220 Gal, a Deltec APF600 with a Red Dragon Pump.
The thing is, no matter how much food I throw on the tank, I am not able to bring up the phosphates, most of the corals are really light in color, and I would love to bring up that to..at least 0.04 or 0.05ppm of PO4 to see an improvement in color.
Also I would like to lower my ORP a little bit.
Not sure if the skimmer is too big for my tank, I have a small quantity of fishes, I have a big quantity of SPS corals (which I have indeed) or a combination of all of them.
Any advice on this?
What would be your approach on this?