maroun.c
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Keep in mind that it takes some time (weeks , months) to be able to lower phosphate or nitrates.
Changing your husbandry like not overfeeding, making sure there are noe dead flow areas in teh tank where detritus settles and dedays.
making water changes.
having a refugium where caulerpa would grow and so consuming nitrates and phophates then pruning the caulerpa.
then there are methods like Zeo, or vodka and carbon dosing and more recently Biopellets to increase the number of filtring bacteria that would consume nitrates and phosphates all leading to ultra low nutrient systems...
With all those phosphates and nitrates might still take weeks or months to start going down especially if your rockwork is now saturated with phophates....
Its important not to panick and not to make drastic changes especially if your corals are OK and not showing signs of stress.
Changing your husbandry like not overfeeding, making sure there are noe dead flow areas in teh tank where detritus settles and dedays.
making water changes.
having a refugium where caulerpa would grow and so consuming nitrates and phophates then pruning the caulerpa.
then there are methods like Zeo, or vodka and carbon dosing and more recently Biopellets to increase the number of filtring bacteria that would consume nitrates and phosphates all leading to ultra low nutrient systems...
With all those phosphates and nitrates might still take weeks or months to start going down especially if your rockwork is now saturated with phophates....
Its important not to panick and not to make drastic changes especially if your corals are OK and not showing signs of stress.
