What are you using for nutrient export in this system?
Filter floss and a boys protein skimmer pretty much. I put a bag of chemi pure blue and purigen as well. How should I add phosphate
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What are you using for nutrient export in this system?
I would start by getting rid of the purigen and the chemi pure and put your skimmer on a 12 hour on/off schedule.Filter floss and a boys protein skimmer pretty much. I put a bag of chemi pure blue and purigen as well. How should I add phosphate
Personally I would dose something like neophos. (You don’t need alot). You don’t have elevated nitrates, but you have imbalanced nutrients. Phosphate starvation is much more severe than nitrate starvation, permanent irreperable tissue damage is caused when you have nitrates and no phosphates. Not having nitrates and not having phosphates results in a loss of color and a slow decline of corals, this is not the case when you have ample nitrates and zero phosphates, the damage is rapid and permanent. There’s no bleaching events like nitrate starvation only permanent damage to the corals often times complete coral mortality. Even worse it can take weeks or months for the full extent of the damage to be realized. IMO this is the worst nutrient situation to be in.
This is great advice and information.
I have experienced this first hand. I still have some pieces that I am hoping recover, but probably never will. Tissue loss from the bottom center moving out and up is a symptom. I raised PO4 and the process began reversing itself. Only the damage was already done on many pieces.