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Phosphate Issue

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casey & will
@saltwater · 4 months ago

Can someone help me or help me create a day by day schedule to help my tank im dosing neophos and prime but my reading are

Salinity 1.024

Alkalinity 15.3

PH 7.4

Phosphate 0

Nitrate 50-100

Nitrite 0.1

Ammonia 0.25

It’s only a 52L tank. I have a frogspawn(closed few days) everything else is fine 2 clownfish urchin torch and mushroom

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Cody Stephens
@Coach_SaltCreep · 7 months ago

I dont think these guys are happy. My alk admittedly swings from 7.7-8.3 every couple of days. I do weekly water changes(5gal in a 18x18) I dose .75ml Seachem Fusion 2 every 2 days. My salinity is 1.025. Nitrate is right around 5 but phosphate gets a little high 0.20. I dont have a bio bioload but I run a skimmer. Ammonia and nitrite 0.

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Rosinboii
Rosin
@Rosinboii · 7 months ago

Anybody have an idea on why this algae keeps popping up in my tank? It fills up quick on the bottom left corner with some patches scattered throughout the tank, I was thinking of using phosguard because I suspected it could be silicates but that doesn't feed this type of algae and I don't have diatoms, I also don't want to lower my phosphate since it's already at a good level

Nitrates: 14.5

Phosphates: 0.05

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