75g Lurking danger and Leafy Seadragons

[vlangel]

The skimmer can run normally and will pull some, but the fine filter traps the most. The LC (like brightwell phosphate RX) binds phosphate creating a floculent (cloudy water) which is trapped in a fine filter, for me that’s a sock. The sock collects the floculent and then is removed that way.

I think less change is always better, so I like the idea of doing nothing.

Ok, IF I use the LC, I will add my polishing filter into the canister and that should do it but not the plan right now.

 

[Uncle99]

Ok, IF I use the LC, I will add my polishing filter into the canister and that should do it but not the plan right now.

It’s a last resort product for me. I assume over time phosphate binds to the rock and it seems to exhaust GFO very fast.
You can certainly pull just with GFO, I just found it get very expensive.

I think my 10% weekly change and 10% evaporation add back has been very helpful in keeping nutrients in a stable position. Much safer at the least.

I never understood why people have this 0.05ppm target for phosphate. I’ve run .1 to as high as .5ppm and except for the number, I see no difference at all, regardless of talking sticks or LPS. Softies do well in higher nutrients systems.

When I look at your display, everything looks great. I’d hate to touch anything but let Mother Nature do her part. She makes the difference.

When I judge action on phosphate is needed, it’s more because it’s rising, week over week. If it’s holding steady, these days, doing nothing at all. I want to find the reason that .3 or .6ppm is ‘top high”.

 

[vlangel]

It’s a last resort product for me. I assume over time phosphate binds to the rock and it seems to exhaust GFO very fast.
You can certainly pull just with GFO, I just found it get very expensive.

I think my 10% weekly change and 10% evaporation add back has been very helpful in keeping nutrients in a stable position. Much safer at the least.

I never understood why people have this 0.05ppm target for phosphate. I’ve run .1 to as high as .5ppm and except for the number, I see no difference at all, regardless of talking sticks or LPS. Softies do well in higher nutrients systems.

When I look at your display, everything looks great. I’d hate to touch anything but let Mother Nature do her part. She makes the difference.

When I judge action on phosphate is needed, it’s more because it’s rising, week over week. If it’s holding steady, these days, doing nothing at all. I want to find the reason that .3 or .6ppm is ‘top high”.

I like your reasoning and it makes sense to me. I have gone years without even testing PO4 because everything looked good and I use tap water that I now know is high in phosphates. The only reason I started to stress on it is because of the uglies on the sandbed but that is probably just a newish tank that hasn't fully settled yet. I was told that high phosphates will make the coral all turn brown but I am very happy with the color of my coral. I am going to just watch the trend of my phosphates and let the tank do its thing.