New to all this reefing 😄

[griss]

Any tips on getting those down?

Water changes will certainly help. For PO4, you could use a GFO reactor or Lanthanum chloride. I've had good success with GFO. So much so, that I no longer need to run it and water changes keep my PO4 in check.

 

[reefing102]

While high the numbers aren’t terrible. The biggest thing is you don’t want 0s either.

 

[MatthewStapleton8]

Hi all,

Little update

Everything going really well, added lots more fish so now have

2 clowns
1 regal tang
1 blue cheeked goby
1 bengal cardinal
1 cleaner shrimp
1 emerald crab
5 nassarius snails
2 red legged hermits

Lost all my turbos, starvation probably but no issue

Question I have is I now want to start getting some corals in so due I need to ramp up my lighting as currently only on for 4 hours a day? Also anything else I need to do other than test more for magnesium, calcium etc? Was going to start with a nice green hammer they have lots of in my lfs, that a good starting coral?

Many thanks in advance

 

[griss]

I would increase the duration of you daylight for sure. Post your water parameters please…Alk, pH, Ca & Mg especially but, also NO3 & PO4.

I personally haven’t kept LPS (like Hammers) in a very long time. But my memory is they are fairly hardly corals but can be prone to brown jelly infections (if that’s still a thing).