Calling all Red Sea NoPox users!

Sdoutreefer · Feb 14, 2014

I just received my first bottle of NoPox and have a question. I'm running GFO right now, should I take the GFO offline or leave it? Also, should I go buy the recommended dosage?

rchrdpnc · Feb 14, 2014

they say to stop gfo while using nopox

Sdoutreefer · Feb 14, 2014

Ya I read that but was wondering how true it is.

rchrdpnc · Feb 14, 2014

i run both so far so good

mike007 · Feb 14, 2014

The Instructions do say to discontinue phosphate removing media. Be careful with this stuff If you use to much you
will get some weird cotton like algae.

rchrdpnc · Feb 14, 2014

ive been using both for months

rchrdpnc · Feb 14, 2014

an my nitrates are 0

Sdoutreefer · Feb 15, 2014

mike007 said:
The Instructions do say to discontinue phosphate removing media. Be careful with this stuff If you use to much you
will get some weird cotton like algae.

Ok I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the heads up.

I'm gonna start the dosing Monday. Hopefully this stuff works!

rchrdpnc · Feb 15, 2014

it works awsome you'll start seeing results in about 3 weeks

kurtyboh · Feb 15, 2014

Definitely nice stuff they say to remove gfo because it interferes with the biological processes you are trying to start by using nopox. Also why pay for gfo when you are getting rid of phosphates with nopox?

Sdoutreefer · Feb 16, 2014

kurtyboh said:
Definitely nice stuff they say to remove gfo because it interferes with the biological processes you are trying to start by using nopox. Also why pay for gfo when you are getting rid of phosphates with nopox?

Good point.

So I'm in need of a new No3 test kit. Anyone have recommendations? All my other kits are Salifert and am pretty partial to their kits. Is there a better one out there?

Sdoutreefer · Feb 17, 2014

Is there anything specific as should do as far as dosing this stuff? Like at night or anything?

kurtyboh · Feb 27, 2014

Sorry for the late response, I hope you figured out your issues, but I fose at the same time every day which is normal for anything you dose. Salifert is certainly one of the best, I have the redsea algae control test kit primarily because that is what my lfs carries. It is probably the nicest colorometric kkit I have used but of course titration is easier to read the results.

Sdoutreefer · Mar 3, 2014

So I've been dosing for almost two weeks now. The algae started turning white a few days after I started to dose but now it's all turning brown, which is because of Po4, correct? I took my GFO offline and am thinking of running it again. It does say to not run GFO while dosing... should I leave it offline or run again but decrease the amount?

I did increase my feeding because a couple of my fish were looking too skinny from decreasing feeding while battling GHA before the NoPox..

kurtyboh · Mar 3, 2014

Just leave it off and try to pull any of that you can because as itvdies it releases more nutrients back into the tank, it will work to just leave it be but will take longer to get the results. The reason you don't run gfo is because you are trying to feed a population of bacteria that utilizes these nutrients by removing part of their food source it messes with their biological process and can lead to some funky results.

Sdoutreefer · Mar 3, 2014

kurtyboh said:
Just leave it off and try to pull any of that you can because as itvdies it releases more nutrients back into the tank, it will work to just leave it be but will take longer to get the results. The reason you don't run gfo is because you are trying to feed a population of bacteria that utilizes these nutrients by removing part of their food source it messes with their biological process and can lead to some funky results.

So would increasing my water change schedule help out? Ya I understand why you don't want to run GFO but I was thinking maybe there was too much PO4. But then again dosing for only a couple of weeks isn't very long

Sdoutreefer · Mar 15, 2014

Soo it's been about a month of dosing 2ml/day and algae is still standing strong. I know a month isn't long in this hobby but I thought I'd be seeing some results.

Hopefully someone who's used this can give me some advice. Should I increase my doseage or stick with what I'm doing? My water volume is right around 50gallons and No3 testing 0.0 and Po4 testing 0.0 (both salifert).

kingb4c0 · Mar 17, 2014

NoPox is very effective reducing Nitrates, for phosphates it will take some more time. Like everything in this hobby you have to find your own balance, not all the tanks are the same and not all solutions work the same way. Phosphates at "0" is a big NO IME.
What king of algae? HA, Bryopsys, Cyano?
What is your CUC?
How are your corals doing?

Sdoutreefer · Mar 17, 2014

kingb4c0 said:
NoPox is very effective reducing Nitrates, for phosphates it will take some more time. Like everything in this hobby you have to find your own balance, not all the tanks are the same and not all solutions work the same way. Phosphates at "0" is a big NO IME.
What king of algae? HA, Bryopsys, Cyano?
What is your CUC?
How are your corals doing?

I agree. Po4 needs to be somewhat existent. I know I have Po4, because some of the algae is brown. The algae is hair algae.

CUC consists of about 20 ceriths, a few scarlet hermits, blue leg hermit, Halloween hermit, 10 nassarius, about 5 emerald crabs.

My corals are doing great. Once I got my alk issue under control all SPS have had great PE and the colors have never been so vibrant.

I'm starting to think my ATO reservoir could be leaching something..

Daddio · Mar 17, 2014

I have had great results... I underdose and even miss some days. It took a good month before I started seeing any real results. I can see it's working because my chaeto has shrunk more than half. No cyano in the dead spots anymore. I have a problem with sailors eyes and those are almost gone also. It was a slow but steady process.

My tests and even the LFS all showed "0" for nitrates and phosphates as well but obviously they are there. I have tried and tried to find the source...