Show me your polluted tanks: High Po4 High No3

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Ok so I seem to stay between .1 and .2 on the PO4, Just water changes it floats more to .2 and when i do the gfo thing a couple of table spoons a week it gets closest to .1 if not slightly below. I do feed my fish quite a bit. After a water change and a long weekend I expected my PO4 to go down but it actually went up with less feeding. So I am not exactly sure how that happened.
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Ok so I seem to stay between .1 and .2 on the PO4, Just water changes it floats more to .2 and when i do the gfo thing a couple of table spoons a week it gets closest to .1 if not slightly below. I do feed my fish quite a bit. After a water change and a long weekend I expected my PO4 to go down but it actually went up with less feeding. So I am not exactly sure how that happened.
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Never saw your tank before, it’s really nice. I like the use of contrasting colors for the coral placement
 

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Ok so I seem to stay between .1 and .2 on the PO4, Just water changes it floats more to .2 and when i do the gfo thing a couple of table spoons a week it gets closest to .1 if not slightly below. I do feed my fish quite a bit. After a water change and a long weekend I expected my PO4 to go down but it actually went up with less feeding. So I am not exactly sure how that happened.
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Nice tank. How old is it? Is that a pectenia in lower right corner
 

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Nice tank. How old is it? Is that a pectenia in lower right corner
Yes it’s a space invader pectinia, got it as a half golf ball size and now it’s like the size of two fist. Almost lost it last year and it receded about half and inch on its branches… I did cut off the exposed skeletons and it has come back nicely and now, no more skeletal exposure.

The coolest thing is this coral host my Clowns!
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Beginner here with no good pics yet…the way I understand so far is that nutrients grow stuff, good stuff and bad stuff. And there’s no way to fuel the good stuff without fueling the bad stuff. So why not keep nutrients a little higher and go for diversity of stuff that can grow.

Still in the uglies, but I’ve found all the uglies have naturally outcompeted each other and balanced out without me doing anything but frequent water changes (and CUC). One might take over and get bad for a couple weeks, but it doesn’t last. Got a touch of cyano, film algae, hair algae, and phyto growth but none are taking over now. Softy corals are growing like crazy, and shrimp molts frequently. Feel like it’s a good place to be and hopefully allows coralline to take off too.
 

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My nitrate test kit is expired and it shows false readings, but couple month ago i did icp and I was in 40ppm range. Also phosphates are in .4-.6 range. Got 9 hungry tangs in my tank, so if there is algae, it gets consumed instantly.
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I let my tank coast for about 3-4 years when we had our first kid. Nutrients around this time were Nitrates 50 and PO4 maxing out the ultra low range checker (so >0.6).
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That is one awesome looking tank!
 

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I hear and see on many threads that you can't have high nutrients to run a colorful and successful reef. I see every day on threads about "help my coral" or "Is this coral dead" there is information that keeps getting regurgitated about having to high of phosphates or nitrates. This thread is not intended to be a debate in what appropriate levels of nutrients should be. As we all know, there are a million different ways to run a reef tank and no 2 setups are exactly the same. So I am just curious to see everyone's POLLUTED tanks. Please list your typical parameters and post a video or picture.

Salinity: 35 Temp: 78.5 PH: 7.8 Alk: 8.5 Ca: 450 MG: 1500+ Po4: .365 No3: 42


That looks great! Are you running metal halides?
 

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