tank parameters: 29 gallon biocube
ammonia:0
nitrite:0
nitrate: 5 (reading 0 after todays water change)
calcium: 425
alkalinity: 9.9
magnesium: 1320
ph: salifert says 7.7 apera ph 20 says 8 not sure which to go by
I've been having an issue in my 29 gallon biocube where my phosphates are reading 0 according to a salifert phosphate kit. my nitrates were 160+ but I've gotten them down by lots of water changes over time to 5 ppm but today after a water change it looked like zero. i'm just getting this tank back in order after getting it back In a divorce, it went 2 years with out a water change. it was possibly topped up with tap water only when the pump started sucking air, it was very low on water and salinity was pretty high.
I've got two clown fish plus a cleaner shrimp. I bought a zoa and hammer coral before I realized having zero phosphates could affect them badly, they haven't been opening fully, sometimes the hammer looks good but most the time the zoa is closed up. after adding the coral the Dinos started showing up for some reason, it just the past few days and they took over fast. I always thought Dinos showed up in low phos and low nitrate, but my nitrate was at least 10 when they started but phos was zero. I was running chemipure elite and perigean in my media rack, I took them both out today with hopes of increasing my phosphate. I started feeding different blends of frozen food morning and nightly to hopefully increase it too.
I was wondering what's the best way to increase phosphate, I took out the chemipure and purigen but im not sure how big of a difference that's going to make. I was looking at some of brightwells products. they have neophos for adding phosphate but im not sure if that's something I want to mess with, just makes me nervous adding something like that. theirs also Brightwell clean, and seven that might help.
I guess my question is the low phos and now lower nitrate is contributing or was it the high nitrate/ low phos problem contributing, maybe I made changes too fast. should I wait it out and see if the changes I made will help balance things out again or should I try the Brightwell products for a time period to see if that helps. I was also thinking of getting the Hannah ULR phosphate checker to make it easier to see my levels. it had no light for over two years because I couldn't get replacement bulbs for the biocube lid plus the divorce, now I have a nicrew 100 running at about 30% power.
ammonia:0
nitrite:0
nitrate: 5 (reading 0 after todays water change)
calcium: 425
alkalinity: 9.9
magnesium: 1320
ph: salifert says 7.7 apera ph 20 says 8 not sure which to go by
I've been having an issue in my 29 gallon biocube where my phosphates are reading 0 according to a salifert phosphate kit. my nitrates were 160+ but I've gotten them down by lots of water changes over time to 5 ppm but today after a water change it looked like zero. i'm just getting this tank back in order after getting it back In a divorce, it went 2 years with out a water change. it was possibly topped up with tap water only when the pump started sucking air, it was very low on water and salinity was pretty high.
I've got two clown fish plus a cleaner shrimp. I bought a zoa and hammer coral before I realized having zero phosphates could affect them badly, they haven't been opening fully, sometimes the hammer looks good but most the time the zoa is closed up. after adding the coral the Dinos started showing up for some reason, it just the past few days and they took over fast. I always thought Dinos showed up in low phos and low nitrate, but my nitrate was at least 10 when they started but phos was zero. I was running chemipure elite and perigean in my media rack, I took them both out today with hopes of increasing my phosphate. I started feeding different blends of frozen food morning and nightly to hopefully increase it too.
I was wondering what's the best way to increase phosphate, I took out the chemipure and purigen but im not sure how big of a difference that's going to make. I was looking at some of brightwells products. they have neophos for adding phosphate but im not sure if that's something I want to mess with, just makes me nervous adding something like that. theirs also Brightwell clean, and seven that might help.
I guess my question is the low phos and now lower nitrate is contributing or was it the high nitrate/ low phos problem contributing, maybe I made changes too fast. should I wait it out and see if the changes I made will help balance things out again or should I try the Brightwell products for a time period to see if that helps. I was also thinking of getting the Hannah ULR phosphate checker to make it easier to see my levels. it had no light for over two years because I couldn't get replacement bulbs for the biocube lid plus the divorce, now I have a nicrew 100 running at about 30% power.
