I have a mate i suspect has a problem bacteria we have been trying to problem solve. What would you suggest to tackle this? We’ve both run multiple successfully tanks but this one is giving us issues.
How are your corals doing when you do not dose Nopox?
Research Organic carbon, that's what nopox is. I like vodka, others prefer vinegar or sugar(there are more). Supposedly nopox is a mix of them. If you keep taking n&p out the water, as it leaches from rocks- sooner or later it will leach less and less at equilibrium with water. But you have to make sure to feed the tank heavily. Heavy in heavy out.
Phosguard works very similarly to GFO. If you’re going to use it just make sure to go slowly and use half the recommended dosage until you see how your levels respond. Gradual decline is the game.ok. i have some of this. is this what you mean?
It should go inside a media bag in a high flow area. If you have filter socks you would put the media bag inside the filter sock. You can also use it in a media reactor.
GFO is not anything to be afraid of but its pretty powerful stuff. Look at GFO reactors. Its a very simple reactor to set up, plus you can do carbon with a GFO reactor. My advice with GFO is that you start with less than the recommended amount and go very slowly so as to not bottom out your phosphates.everything looks pretty good when i am not dosing it. once in awhile ill loose a random coral but otherwise looks good. id like more fleshband on my torches but they look happy otherwise. i dont deal with any problem algae. the tank is 125 gallon and i was dosing 2 tsp every 24 hr. but want to quit because now im losing stuff. yeah, it helps get the numbers down. i havent used gfo because it looks daunting to me, i guess. never have tried it. i can do more wc but it never seems to change the numbers a whole lot. i just want to get them down because i feel like im always on the brink of disaster with them so much higher than everyone else
