Can paint fuel phosphates?
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I believe it was... not sure tho. It dried for a month before I put it on the tank. And nothing else is affected all fish and coral are perfectly fine. The only problem is high phosphates
After it's cured it shouldn't be a problem. I don't know, but wouldn't think organic phosphate would be soluble to the point of arisolizing even wet.
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Yea I didn't think so.... I'm coming up with sorts of theroies lol.... phosphates must be coming from my rock that's all I can narrow it down to...
Was it old rock?
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I do not know the age of the rock but I got from a guy that had it in his 700g tank and the tank was running perfectly fine
I suppose I meant used, not old.
Yea phosphates bind to rock and sand. So it's possible. A lot of folks have no prob with high phosphates.
Yea phosphates bind to rock and sand. So it's possible. A lot of folks have no prob with high phosphates.
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Mine are like 60ppb (0.18 ppm) sooo way to high for me... I'm thinking about siphioning all the sand out slowly over a couple weeks and then slowly adding new live rock to the tank and taking the old out over the course of a couple months. Does that sound like a good plan to you?
My po4 is .25.
Why do want to lower it. The number on the test or somthing actually wrong.
Why do want to lower it. The number on the test or somthing actually wrong.
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Bubbles coming from sand major hair algae outbreak glass needs to be cleaned every couple hours...
Po4 is not the bubbles btw.
Hair algae and glass yea part of it.
Are you running a scrubber or fuge?
Gha will survive in low nutrints btw. Just limits growth.
You need CUC and manual removal for that.
Hair algae and glass yea part of it.
Are you running a scrubber or fuge?
Gha will survive in low nutrints btw. Just limits growth.
You need CUC and manual removal for that.
Nope. Phosphate doesn't work like that.
Bacteria blooms come form sudden carbon source introduction.
Bubbles I don't know. We'd have to talk about that one. Could in fact be actual nitrogen gas.
Or co2.
Bacteria blooms come form sudden carbon source introduction.
Bubbles I don't know. We'd have to talk about that one. Could in fact be actual nitrogen gas.
Or co2.
How old is it?
And pictures help.
Keep in mind. It may just be normal. Unless it chronic bubbling or cyano and really odd stuff
And pictures help.
Keep in mind. It may just be normal. Unless it chronic bubbling or cyano and really odd stuff
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The tank is roughly 6 months old but the rocks are unknown. I'm thinking it is something with the rock tho. The bubbles really start coming later in the day once the lights been on for awhile so I'm leaning towards some kind of cyano fueled but the phosphates? I would like to sent a pic but the bubbles don't really show up on the camera it's weird! But they rise from the sand bed every couple of seconds. So annoying lol
