For about 2 months now, my phosphates have been at .08-1 ppm, and my nitrates have been 14-16 ppm.
I feed pellets via auto feeder once per day (1 screw turn on an Eheim) and a homemade food in the evening (live oysters and mussels and frozen mysis)
My nitrates and phosphates have remained stable since firing up my Skimz macro algae reactor.
To me, it means the macro is keeping up with, but not reducing those nutrients.
Tank is currently softies and LPS and will most likely remain so.
I do not have any algae or dino issues. Tank is 4 months wet.
I do have rowaphos and NoPox.
I was thinking about using my IM desktop reactor (was on my prior IM30L) and just running rowaphos in it to bring phosphates down to around .05. I use the Hanna phosphorus checker.
And dose 2ml daily of NoPox to get nitrates down to around 8-10.
I’m really not into chasing an exact number, and I don’t even know if those numbers are ok for a softie tank.
Do I even need to do anything?
Should I do something before things get out of control?
Sound advice appreciated!
I feed pellets via auto feeder once per day (1 screw turn on an Eheim) and a homemade food in the evening (live oysters and mussels and frozen mysis)
My nitrates and phosphates have remained stable since firing up my Skimz macro algae reactor.
To me, it means the macro is keeping up with, but not reducing those nutrients.
Tank is currently softies and LPS and will most likely remain so.
I do not have any algae or dino issues. Tank is 4 months wet.
I do have rowaphos and NoPox.
I was thinking about using my IM desktop reactor (was on my prior IM30L) and just running rowaphos in it to bring phosphates down to around .05. I use the Hanna phosphorus checker.
And dose 2ml daily of NoPox to get nitrates down to around 8-10.
I’m really not into chasing an exact number, and I don’t even know if those numbers are ok for a softie tank.
Do I even need to do anything?
Should I do something before things get out of control?
Sound advice appreciated!