water to clean

[jose hernandez]

ive had problems keep any phospahtes or nitrates both are reading 0 this is a sps dominant tank its fairly new ive been feeding brine shrimp 3x a day adding phyto feast twice a week phosphates goes up to 0.03 using the phyto but then goes back to 0 in a day or 2 as far as biological filtartion all i have is a marine pure media 8x8x4 block a bag of carbon a reef octopus skimmer rated for 450 gallons a 57 watt uv sterilizer fish i have a yellow tang unicorn tang and 3 wrasses what can i do noticed colors fading in my corals

 

[Jon Fishman]

Tank size?

Maybe run skimmer on/off

 

[jose hernandez]

200 gallons

 

[ScottR]

Tank pics? Sounds your skimmer is unneeded at this point. More fish will help. It’s a big tank. Don’t skimp.

 

[jose hernandez]

i turned off the skimmer yesterday gona test later on

 

[ScottR]

Seriously. Add fish. Feed more.

 

[jose hernandez]

i was thiking of adding a bunch of chromis to the tank to se if that helps

 

[jose hernandez]

feeding 3 cubes frozen brine shrimp 3x a day

 

[SPR1968]

As already said, add a lot more fish. Having 5 fish in 200gallons of water your going to have very low nutrients however much you feed them.

My S650 is smaller than that and I must have probably 30+ fish in there so you have plenty of space.

 

[jose hernandez]

what would you recommend as far as fish selection being i have sps

 

[ScottR]

You mentioned chromis. A good cheap choice. If you just want cheap fish to keep nutrients up, go with damsels. They’re easy to keep. Clowns also are easy. In a 200g, you have so many choices and almost any reefsafe fish should fit.

 

[jose hernandez]

k thnks

 

[Abbetude]

Dose nitrates and phosphates and as mentioned add some bio load - foxface , yellow tang etc - they nuke = fertilizer for your corals... slow down water changes and skimmer offline for a while. keep eyes closely on your parameters as you dose. good luck

 

[X-37B]

My 120 11 fish.
6 blue green chromis
1 lawnmower blenny
1 clown
1 pajama cardinal
1 coris wrasse
1 convict tang
I feed 4 times a day @ 1.5 frozen cubes per. Varied types of cubes
My po4 is .02 to .06 on a good day
and sometimes less.
No3 1ish.
Low values but small amounts of algae seen in tank but cleanup crew taks care of it.
As long as I have algae growth I dont worry about values.
Glass gets flippered every couple of days for green growth.
Bare bottom so most all nutrients exit.
Get more fish, feed more.
Do you have any algae growing in tank? It will consume the po4 pretty quick.

 

[jose hernandez]

turned off the skimmer as far as fish my local lfs only had disbar anthias and square back anthias so i got 5 disbar and 1 squareback rock has some algae i gets a little on the glass dont have barebottom was goin to but decided on sandbes due to my luv for wrasses

 

[jose hernandez]

dont foxfaces eats corals?