Let's get serious about PHOSPHATE

[las]

My PO4 is .29 ppm and NO3 is 7 ppm. Are these levels bad for a reef?

 

[mdb_talon]

My PO4 is .29 ppm and NO3 is 7 ppm. Are these levels bad for a reef?

.29 is higher than the widely accepted ideal range by a good amount. Having said that the best judge of whether it is bad is how your tank is doing. Corals being healthy and colorful being the main consideration in my opinion. I have ran high phosphate in the past at times. Now i struggle keeping it above 0.0. i can say for me my tank does best somewhere in the .05 to .1 range.

 

[HawkeyeDJ]

No wonder failure rate in this hobby is so high. 127 processes all have to work deadon all at the same time.

Guess answer is to do a 25% WC every 12hrs, have a GFO reactor the size of a bathtub and only feed you fish from a thimble


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That's pretty much what the ocean does, right? We try to emulate what happens in nature. So, any recommendations for getting that bathtub?