High phosphates

[jose hernandez]

So I had a bad case of dinos recently corals we’re looking like crap so I’ve been blowing the rocks siphoning out as much as I can and doin weekly water changes but for some reason I have high phosphates I’m using the Hanna ulr 736 checker I’m getting a reading of 79 I put it on my apex graph and it comes .24 corals still look like crap
My Parameters
Alk 8.2
Cal 455
Mag 1470
Nitrates .10
Salinity 1.026
How do I lower the phosphates water changer are not helping much I’m still feeding the fish I cut them one frozen cube a day

 

[Parent_usmc]

Have you lost any fish recently? If a fish dies and is decaying in the tank you might see that

 

[WIReefer]

Could always run a reactor, skim heavy, more frequent water changes, removing access algae frequently, gfo or a run a Fuge there are many options to lower phosphates.

 

[jose hernandez]

No fish died as far as reactor no have no space these Red Sea tank lack it what can I use to bring them down water changes are not Helping did one yesterday dropped from 25 to 24

 

[jose hernandez]

skimmer is on 24 hours a day

 

[Coral4coral]

I would run cheato and start doing some water changes had the same problem no to long ago

 

[|Tom the Bomb|]

the most straightfoward way is just running GFO in a reactor now or use PHOSPHAT-E

 

[Coral4coral]

the most straightfoward way is just running GFO in a reactor now or use PHOSPHAT-E

I can agree with this but do it slow you because you can easily strip the tank if you don’t keep an eye on it

 

[jose hernandez]

What’s a good reactor tank is 200 gallons

 

[Coral4coral]

Brs has a bunch I think the single stage would be plenty i bought it for my 75 and barely ran an 8th of it with gfo during the early months of my tank now I just use it for carbon also I’ve heard really good things about rowaphos which is basically a higher end gfo you might wana do some research on that aswell

 

[jose hernandez]

does the brightwell phosophate e really work trying not add more equipment unless i really have to a buddy of mines suggested phosguard by seachem

 

[|Tom the Bomb|]

I can agree with this but do it slow you because you can easily strip the tank if you don’t keep an eye on it

ya one /!\ if ur phosphates go weeeeee from like a high number to 0 it can stress out corals and ****
like let it slowly fall 0.something ppm a day or 2 and stuff not ridding the tank of it this is why phosphat-E is good cuz u can control it

What’s a good reactor tank is 200 gallons

if u want a modular all in one reactor some good options are skimz RR-117 reactor made for GFO and biopellets, Lifegard sideflow reactor 4 sizes i would recommend the L or the bubble magus BP100 also made for biopellets but can be converted to GFO with 2 sponges, phosban media reactor but u need a hose and pump extra

 

[jose hernandez]

I’ll look into thnks