Rich Ross - Home Tank - guess the phosphate

[Miami Reef]

0.66ppm

 

[Gregg @ ADP]

Shot from yesterday. Kinda cleaned the glass. NPS half awake. Guess the phosphate

Where are all of your dinos???

 

[Big E]

Hey Rich,

How often do you feed your dendros and others? What type of food? They always look very happy.

I get lazy at times and don't feed often enough plus my Desjardini tang steals the food.........very frustrating.

You have any food contraption you use?

 

[taricha]

Where are all of your dinos???

Funny thing is, that tank has more dinos than 99% of systems. They are just symbiotic ones inside the coral.

 

[tripdad]

.47

 

[Gregg @ ADP]

I will guess the current PO4 is 0.84

 

[Thales]

.97

 

[Thales]

Hey Rich,

How often do you feed your dendros and others? What type of food? They always look very happy.

I get lazy at times and don't feed often enough plus my Desjardini tang steals the food.........very frustrating.

You have any food contraption you use?

I have an avast marine plank feeder, but just the auger, over a DIy water fed auto feeder. So, the corals get fed flake and other foods a few times a day. I like to direct feed as often as I can, but sometimes I don't for weeks.

i would not recommend skipping direct feedings like this until the corals are acclimated to the system and opening regularly.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

.97

Haha... I share your thoughts on phosphates.

I tested mine last week and were off the charts of the hanna low range phosphate tester.

Knowing that and looking at my take you'd think it would be covered in algae...

Here it is from this morning.

 

[ChrisRD]

Wow Rich, your tank looks better than ever! I remember the in-wall thread from back in the Reefs.org days. Some of those corals are probably older than some of the folks reading the site!

 

[drawman]

.97

I need some of your phosphate rich water

 

[areefer01]

Haha... I share your thoughts on phosphates.

I tested mine last week and were off the charts of the hanna low range phosphate tester.

Knowing that and looking at my take you'd think it would be covered in algae...

Here it is from this morning.

1.68 here.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

1.68 here.

What tester are you using?

 

[areefer01]

What tester are you using?

Home test kit is Hanna. I forget which version, sorry. It flashes 200 at me which I believe is .6 ppm? Every three months, or there abouts, I send off a ICP sample (ATI). I don't really do much with the results but I like the data to look at trends.

I don't know how accurate ATI's results are but that is the number I gave above. I have a pretty good data set and can see how it climbed over time then my attempt to manage it via phosphate Rx or GFO then bounce back up. So I'm pretty sure of the results.

At one point I thought maybe I could trick Hanna's test kit by adding 5 ml of tank water, 5 ml of RODI, then test but it still flashed 200. I don't know.

 

[Garf]

I need some of your phosphate rich water

If you are devoid, I'll sell you some.