Krissreef
Community Member
Who's got that problem?
Today I tested 1 nitrate and 0.12 phosphates... its a 120 gallon mixed reef. I run a refugium (approximately 7gal) for 11 hours and its about 90% full at all times, I dont harvest a much. I run kessil 160 grow light on it. I have a omega 180i skimmer which collects around inch to inch and a half skimmate a week. No filter socks or filter floss. For about 2 weeks now i have been using brightwell purit, but that should be helping or harming my nutrient problem.
I have used rowaphos to lower the phosphates and maintain some nitrate before, it worked well. For a month or so i dosed nitrates, no rowaphos, nitrates leveled up well, 5 and 0.08, but i started seeing dino looking stuff on my acros. Not sure if it was primarily from the nitrates dosage, overdose of aminos or phyto. Either way i stopped dosing all together. I will start dosing aminos but very slow, starting today. Either way its been almost 2 weeks since i stopped dosing nitrates, the tank is doing better but today i tested 1 nitrate and 0.12 phosphates. I feed very small amount of pellets (like 10-15 pellets) once a day, and i feed 2-3 cubes of frozen once a day as well. One of those cubes is the sparelina one, which i feed that only once every other day. I also add 7 drops of coral vitilizer from kz every day. I have used that food on many tanks and i know it does not add much nutrients.
In conclusion i just added back my rowaphos reactor to batter the high phosphates.
Who else has this kind of problem and how are u doing with or? Or how have u permanently fixed it?
Today I tested 1 nitrate and 0.12 phosphates... its a 120 gallon mixed reef. I run a refugium (approximately 7gal) for 11 hours and its about 90% full at all times, I dont harvest a much. I run kessil 160 grow light on it. I have a omega 180i skimmer which collects around inch to inch and a half skimmate a week. No filter socks or filter floss. For about 2 weeks now i have been using brightwell purit, but that should be helping or harming my nutrient problem.
I have used rowaphos to lower the phosphates and maintain some nitrate before, it worked well. For a month or so i dosed nitrates, no rowaphos, nitrates leveled up well, 5 and 0.08, but i started seeing dino looking stuff on my acros. Not sure if it was primarily from the nitrates dosage, overdose of aminos or phyto. Either way i stopped dosing all together. I will start dosing aminos but very slow, starting today. Either way its been almost 2 weeks since i stopped dosing nitrates, the tank is doing better but today i tested 1 nitrate and 0.12 phosphates. I feed very small amount of pellets (like 10-15 pellets) once a day, and i feed 2-3 cubes of frozen once a day as well. One of those cubes is the sparelina one, which i feed that only once every other day. I also add 7 drops of coral vitilizer from kz every day. I have used that food on many tanks and i know it does not add much nutrients.
In conclusion i just added back my rowaphos reactor to batter the high phosphates.
Who else has this kind of problem and how are u doing with or? Or how have u permanently fixed it?
), if you use gfo, then slowly bring down PO4. Also, if you remove a good portion of chaeto, this allows more to grow rapidly and better reduce nutrients. I really like the Tropic marin carbon dosing, as it targets certain phosphates levels.
