Whoops! I added a fleece roller to my system. At the same time, I lowered my daily feeding frequency from 2-3, down to 1 a day. Also added a bag of copepods.
My nitrates were 7ppm, and phosphates were .03ppm before the changes.
I've not tested these two parameters since making the changes about a month ago. Was about to do a water change, so I decided to test em. I'm glad I did.
Im considering my options because I dont want these two bottomed out. Some of my corals have looked less happy than usual, and this is probably why.
Do I? -
• Do smaller water changes
• Increase the feeding
• Do less frequent water changes
• Throw it all away
I had originally made these changes to combat the uglies. It worked..
Who knew reef keeping was so hard. You get one parameter sorted then the rest blow up in you face, Ughhhhh.
(This was yesterday) slugger the snail died. My tank is a little cloudy very fast (in a day) I think it’s the led light
Well I got my triton lab results in there were 12 screen shots and it will only let me load 8 but anyway even with weekly water changes my iodine is low guess it’s time to dose that now
How can I lower phosphates without lowering nitrates too low? Nitrates are 13.4 and phosphates are 0.4. It could be worse realistically but would like to lower it. Not looking to use GFO
Things are thriving despite my worry over bottomed out nitrate levels! I got myself a Hanna Nitrate tester so I can more accurately see where things are at. I’m so far benchmark test with it is 1.29ppm. I have Brightwell Neonitro on hand just in case but refraining from using it yet till I monitor trends for a little while. Started increasing feedings and changing the filter sock once a week instead of twice in case things were ‘too clean’. But despite my worry, everything is happy and growing!
Hello everyone! I am having trouble keeping my phosphates up. I am consistently at 0.00
I am dosing sodium nitrate which keeps my nitrates consistently between 9.0 - 11.0
I also have a cyanobacteria outbreak that I can't shake off with chemi-clean. I am using reef roids daily to try and raise phosphates. I have lost almost all my LPS since this situation came about. If anyone can give insight it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
So everything in my tank is happy. Did a water change yesterday cause I noticed I have high phosphate and high nitrate. Should I be concerned if everything is doing fine
Okay so my phosphate has always been running about 0.2. this seems to be regarded as a little high but I’ve not had problems so far. I went to LFS to get GFO to bring it down and they told me it’s fine, because I’m only doing softies and LPS.
at the risk of getting a bunch of different opinions, what am I to think when the value is out of ideal range on paper but the experts are telling me it’s fine?
Just finished a little po4 reduction project. Let’s see if we can lower that .74 ppm po4 in a spa grow out tank.
Whoops! I added a fleece roller to my system. At the same time, I lowered my daily feeding frequency from 2-3, down to 1 a day. Also added a bag of copepods.
My nitrates were 7ppm, and phosphates were .03ppm before the changes.
I've not tested these two parameters since making the changes about a month ago. Was about to do a water change, so I decided to test em. I'm glad I did.
Im considering my options because I dont want these two bottomed out. Some of my corals have looked less happy than usual, and this is probably why.
Do I? -
• Do smaller water changes
• Increase the feeding
• Do less frequent water changes
• Throw it all away
I had originally made these changes to combat the uglies. It worked..
Can anyone help me with my parameters if there good or bad please.
Missed a water change due to financial reasons, will my tank be okay?