Tuscaquatics
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I've had my 75-gallon reef set up now for about 6 weeks. I moved everything over from my previous 55 into this tank and added about another 30 or so pounds of dead rock that I had bleached, rinsed and dried and then cured in the new tank for a couple weeks before I moved the other stuff over.
I never had any sort of cycle whatsoever after I moved the 55 over and I was able to get my nitrates down to 0 in just a couple weeks. But my phosphates have stayed at 1 on an API test kit the whole time. You can see all my equipment info in my sig below. I have a fuge with tons of cheato that grows well. I have no nuisance algae in the DT, and my coralline is already taking off. All of my corals seem to be doing fine.
I know that if I'm not having algae problems, and everything is doing well, then I should be happy, but 1 phosphate can't be good. I know that it inhibits calcification and coralline growth.
Should I be patient and see if it goes down on its own with time? Or am I gonna have to run a Phosban reactor or something? I thought chaeto would take care of it. Do bacteria break down phosphates, or are there any other means of exporting them aside from macro, chemical means or water changes? After battling hair algae for a while in my 55 I've been trying to learn all I can about phosphates.
I never had any sort of cycle whatsoever after I moved the 55 over and I was able to get my nitrates down to 0 in just a couple weeks. But my phosphates have stayed at 1 on an API test kit the whole time. You can see all my equipment info in my sig below. I have a fuge with tons of cheato that grows well. I have no nuisance algae in the DT, and my coralline is already taking off. All of my corals seem to be doing fine.
I know that if I'm not having algae problems, and everything is doing well, then I should be happy, but 1 phosphate can't be good. I know that it inhibits calcification and coralline growth.
Should I be patient and see if it goes down on its own with time? Or am I gonna have to run a Phosban reactor or something? I thought chaeto would take care of it. Do bacteria break down phosphates, or are there any other means of exporting them aside from macro, chemical means or water changes? After battling hair algae for a while in my 55 I've been trying to learn all I can about phosphates.