0.18 po4

[Daurland]

New tank has been running for the past two months,
Is there other suggestions besides 15% water change weekly in a 75 gallon. Running a fluval 407

po4 is sitting at 0.18 would like to get lower but the few corals I have are blooming and colors are good and the few fish are healthy as well

 

[rwreef]

Personally if everything looks healthy I would not do anything other than make sure phosphates and nitrates do not hit 0.

 

[dwest]

New tank has been running for the past two months,
Is there other suggestions besides 15% water change weekly in a 75 gallon. Running a fluval 407

po4 is sitting at 0.18 would like to get lower but the few corals I have are blooming and colors are good and the few fish are healthy as well

I wouldn’t

worry. I run about 0.3 ppm po4.

 

[Daurland]

I wouldn’t

worry. I run about 0.3 ppm po4.

Ok I’ll just stick with weekly water changes and keep an eye on it

 

[Daurland]

Personally if everything looks healthy I would not do anything other than make sure phosphates and nitrates do not hit 0.

All my levels are good tested today, just the po4 is the only thing that is higher than would like but obviously it’s a newer tank going to run it’s course

 

[ninjamyst]

My PO4 is 0.37 and corals look great....

 

[Daurland]

My PO4 is 0.37 and corals look great....

My PO4 is 0.37 and corals look great....

ok cool yeah I saw it going a little to high for “recommended reading” and was trying to figure it out

 

[ekandler]

Personally I’d work on getting it down slowly. First, even if everything is healthy and happy, I’ve seen better coloration in the 0.03-0.08 range. Too high phosphate is “technically” toxic and even if it’s not killing corals, it may be preventing them from looking their best, and looking good is really the point.

worst case, your corals aren’t healthy and stress on a coral doesn’t show quickly. In my experience, once corals show signs of poor health it is either too late or will take months to recover back to full health, or heal back areas which died off.

if things still look good that means you don’t need to panic, too quick of a change will also stress the coral, but I wouldn’t just ignore the numbers and leave it as is. Work on feeding less if possible, skim more, run fuge a little longer, do a 20% rather than 15% water change, stuff like that to get it down slowly.

 

[Daurland]

Personally I’d work on getting it down slowly. First, even if everything is healthy and happy, I’ve seen better coloration in the 0.03-0.08 range. Too high phosphate is “technically” toxic and even if it’s not killing corals, it may be preventing them from looking their best, and looking good is really the point.

worst case, your corals aren’t healthy and stress on a coral doesn’t show quickly. In my experience, once corals show signs of poor health it is either too late or will take months to recover back to full health, or heal back areas which died off.

if things still look good that means you don’t need to panic, too quick of a change will also stress the coral, but I wouldn’t just ignore the numbers and leave it as is. Work on feeding less if possible, skim more, run fuge a little longer, do a 20% rather than 15% water change, stuff like that to get it down slowly.

Ok perfect thank you, coral looks really good and bright fish are active as always, algae isn’t to bad just got done with diatom.

levels are all good just the po4 which I will start to lower by water changes and get 20% instead of 15% and get a better protein skimmer

 

[Daurland]

 

[Mschmidt]

.35 here.

 

[Daurland]

 

[Mschmidt]

.18 is nothing to worry about.

 

[Daurland]

.18 is nothing to worry about.

Ok thank you just want to check as well was told water changes and I will stick with that