My 120g DT and 40g sump are 6 months old. 1/2 of the liverock in it came from my 3year old 75g which ive shut down.
The rest of the rock was dead dry rock.
I am a have been a heavy feeder for my moderately stocked reef tank. I like my fish well fed. So I know where the PO4 has come from...i just didnt know how bad it was.
I had been testing with a salifert kit and levels appeared to be fine. That is until i realized my test kit expired 2 years ago.
My Hanna 713 read my PO4 off the charts at 3.0. I figured that was wrong and i mist have gotten a bad test kit lot#. So i bought more test reagents of a different lot#...same reading of 3.0 (thats as high as the checker reads).
I got a water sample from someone else and tested their water at 0.57, so it appears that my test kit reagents are fine. My water is the problem.
I dont notice any negative effects on my mixed reef corals. But i dont see much growth either. Makes sense as PO4 inhibits the calcium uptake process.
My question im hoping to have answered is: what is the best way to get the PO4 down.
In the past week I've done 4 water changes totalling ~140g which i estimate to be my total water volume.
PO4 budged down to 2.30.
I added 1 cup of Phosguard to a reactor.
After 24 hours PO4 is at 2.11.
Where is the PO4? I would have thought the massive water change would have made more of a difference.
My next step is to try PhosphateRX.
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The rest of the rock was dead dry rock.
I am a have been a heavy feeder for my moderately stocked reef tank. I like my fish well fed. So I know where the PO4 has come from...i just didnt know how bad it was.
I had been testing with a salifert kit and levels appeared to be fine. That is until i realized my test kit expired 2 years ago.
My Hanna 713 read my PO4 off the charts at 3.0. I figured that was wrong and i mist have gotten a bad test kit lot#. So i bought more test reagents of a different lot#...same reading of 3.0 (thats as high as the checker reads).
I got a water sample from someone else and tested their water at 0.57, so it appears that my test kit reagents are fine. My water is the problem.
I dont notice any negative effects on my mixed reef corals. But i dont see much growth either. Makes sense as PO4 inhibits the calcium uptake process.
My question im hoping to have answered is: what is the best way to get the PO4 down.
In the past week I've done 4 water changes totalling ~140g which i estimate to be my total water volume.
PO4 budged down to 2.30.
I added 1 cup of Phosguard to a reactor.
After 24 hours PO4 is at 2.11.
Where is the PO4? I would have thought the massive water change would have made more of a difference.
My next step is to try PhosphateRX.
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