Hey everyone.
My reef tank has been up for a few years ad the nutrients were usually low. Recently my phosphates have climbed up to over 1ppm. Nitrates firmly planted at 0. I didn't have the phophate test for a while there so my bad.
I thought this could be because of the heavy feeding I was doing to get some fish up to breeding condition. In sight of this I stopped the heavy feeding, now I'm down to once every 3 days, and I added phosguard as per the instructions. I use chaeto as a form of nutrient control in general and never used phosphate removers before since levels were always low. It's been a week now and I see no significant reduction on the phosphate levels (if the nyos test kit is to be believed).
Also quite a bit of algae has sprung up on the past month or so. I'm asuming the combination of high phos and high temp due to summer.
Corals are doing fine for the most part except for an acro frag I lost and a meteor shower chyphastrea that is not doing so well. There is alo a really upset goniopora but I believe it's like that from it's recent encounter with a large mushroom colony.
What could I do?
My reef tank has been up for a few years ad the nutrients were usually low. Recently my phosphates have climbed up to over 1ppm. Nitrates firmly planted at 0. I didn't have the phophate test for a while there so my bad.
I thought this could be because of the heavy feeding I was doing to get some fish up to breeding condition. In sight of this I stopped the heavy feeding, now I'm down to once every 3 days, and I added phosguard as per the instructions. I use chaeto as a form of nutrient control in general and never used phosphate removers before since levels were always low. It's been a week now and I see no significant reduction on the phosphate levels (if the nyos test kit is to be believed).
Also quite a bit of algae has sprung up on the past month or so. I'm asuming the combination of high phos and high temp due to summer.
Corals are doing fine for the most part except for an acro frag I lost and a meteor shower chyphastrea that is not doing so well. There is alo a really upset goniopora but I believe it's like that from it's recent encounter with a large mushroom colony.
What could I do?