So I have a fairly new setup (2 months or so) and I’ve had very high phosphates from the start. Over the last while I’ve gotten them down from .5 to .1 with water changes, and running chemipure elite while I got my refugium setup. Now the refugium is setup and chaeto has been growing for the last 2 weeks which has helped lowering phosphates a lot. Problem is that now my nitrates have bottomed out. I’ve been feeding heavily this week trying to get them up with no luck, worried if I feed more I’ll just increase phosphates instead.
So my question is, do you guys think I should dose nitrates to get them up then just let my fuge keep bringing phosphates down?
So my question is, do you guys think I should dose nitrates to get them up then just let my fuge keep bringing phosphates down?