Get yourself a good phosphate test (I recommend Hanna ulr) and some Gfo to remove excess phosphates if you need to in a pinch. But don’t lower your phosphates to zero. Your corals need some phosphates, 0.03-0.10 is a good place to shoot for. It’ll be ok. Just use less next time.
I have the Hanna and my phosphates have never been over .04
Did you test after adding reef roids? Whenever I’ve added reef roids, my phosphate has spiked. What are your nitrates?
Just feed mysis. I’ve found reef chili to be a little less phosphate rich than reef roids. Red Sea A+B also has phosphates, but I don’t remember if it spiked mine or not in the past. The challenge with Red Sea A + B is that it isn’t thick enough for the corals to really grab onto. It’s more of something you dose into your tank rather than target feed.
Yeah, that happens. My shrimp also steal reef roids, anything I feed the corals really. What I do is target feed my shrimp and then feed the corals while they’re distracted.
How old is your tank? Could just be normal new tank algae, which is common. Other idea would be to test for silicates.
My tank is nine months old. A little about me: I am not a lazy aquarist. I am on top of my tank daily. Water test weekly and water changes every two weeks. I research constantly and hear the same horror stories unless someone has a large tank.
I’m the same, but I’ve still had some hiccups and disasters before, as even experts aquarists can have. Nine months isn’t brand new, but it’s very young, so it could be normal algae growth in a young tank. Other thing I thought of was how often are you testing phosphates? Because if you’re testing it once per week, it could be spiking during the week and then being consumed by the algae and then going back down before you test.
I have no algae. When I used reef roids and had the algae issue was 3 months ago. I quickly fixed that.
Then I’m confused what your question is if you quickly fixed the issue and don’t have the issue anymore. You must know what caused it if you fixed it.
I do know. It was the reef roids. I'd like to feed my corals without that happening again.
