moremsgplease
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I have a po4 reading in between .25 and .5 What is the best way to get this to come down, and what is it caused by?
phosphate
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crvz
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phosban reactor will pull out the po4 in the water column, but you'll have to find the source. Most of the time it'll be in the food you add to the tank, which isnt removed before it gets a chance to break down. Increase your husbandry and skimming to make sure that anything added to the tank gets removed as quickly as possible.
moremsgplease
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I just recently add a yellow tang. When it is eating seaweed some of it will not get ate. Could that cause phosphate if I don't change my filter bag often enough?
All of the food you add contains phosphate. So does fish waste. A granulated ferric oxide produt such as Phosban or Rowpas will remove it if used in a reactor. You can also grow macroalgae in a refugium and it will use some of it up.Skimming,carbon ,siphoning detritus and cleaning mechanical fiter media if used all help.
That's true but not all of it comes out. If not overfed much of it will be incorporated into the fish's tissues and muscle mass via growth. Tangs are still messy poopers though.:lol:
