Curious what you’d recommend in this situation.
So I was trying to cut corners at the time and was using tap water that I ran through a dual carbon reactor up until recently. Then actually checking my source water and realizing it was 0.9 for phosphates. I bought a RODI.
(I used tap water for over 8 months.)
I had extremely high phosphates in the tank up until two weeks ago at 0.68 at its highest. But it didn’t seem to be effecting anything but assumed it definitely wasn’t ideal. So I added 1/4 of high capacity GFO for a week and phosphates went down to 0.08. Since then I lost 2 snails and had a few corals start to fade out in color. (Montipora digi, a red cap and a setosa and the top of a pocillapora go slightly white.)
I removed the GFO and will be only topping the tank off with RODI water as well as doing my water changes from now on.
So basically I’m just wondering for how long will the corals be effected and be loosing there colors? I feel that the shock in the phosphate dip is what caused the issues in color fading.
So I was trying to cut corners at the time and was using tap water that I ran through a dual carbon reactor up until recently. Then actually checking my source water and realizing it was 0.9 for phosphates. I bought a RODI.
(I used tap water for over 8 months.)
I had extremely high phosphates in the tank up until two weeks ago at 0.68 at its highest. But it didn’t seem to be effecting anything but assumed it definitely wasn’t ideal. So I added 1/4 of high capacity GFO for a week and phosphates went down to 0.08. Since then I lost 2 snails and had a few corals start to fade out in color. (Montipora digi, a red cap and a setosa and the top of a pocillapora go slightly white.)
I removed the GFO and will be only topping the tank off with RODI water as well as doing my water changes from now on.
So basically I’m just wondering for how long will the corals be effected and be loosing there colors? I feel that the shock in the phosphate dip is what caused the issues in color fading.