Very high phosphate

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Been dealing with super high phosphates and I’m not really sure for how long. Tank is 20g bare bottom. 3 years old. Just zoa’s and a few SPS and a torch. Snails, shrimp, and an emerald crab...no fish. I’ve been dealing with GHA for a really long time. Lately it seems to be going away. I dose 5ml of All For Reef daily and 5ml of AB+ daily (as of March 27th I haven’t been dosing anything) my on not filtration is a cheap nano skimmer and an older bag of purigen that needs to be removed probably.

On the 27th phosphates were at 0.67. I did a 5g water change and tested again the next day. They had dropped down to 0.37 (seems like a large drop for a water change?) on the 31st they were at 0.26.

Right now:

Phosphate: 0.29 (Hanna Checker)
Nitrate: 10
Ca: 460
Alk: 12.1
Mag:
Temp: 78.2
Salinity: 1.025

Only things I’ve noticed are a few of my zoa colonies have shrunken down a bit and one or two of them lost half the polys. My Red Planet acro is all green and lost its red.

Thoughts? I ordered NO3PO4-X
 

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having that issue as well! My phosphates are 0.25 and I dose recc. About 2-3 times per week. I also alternate days with reef roids, so I I can’t definitively confirm who is the culprit. No one to blame but myself I suppose, haha.
 

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having that issue as well! My phosphates are 0.25 and I dose recc. About 2-3 times per week. I also alternate days with reef roids, so I I can’t definitively confirm who is the culprit. No one to blame but myself I suppose, haha.
Both Reef Roids and AB add phosphates
 

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I know! I was hoping my fuge, skimmer, carbon, and polyfilter would keep them at bay. What’s the “go to” GFO media if I want to run it in a media bag (would replace a filter sock).
 
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