My po4 is still at .06 please help

[Bpb]

I always dose Phos RX into my skimmer and havent had any problems. Anyway. Yet another vote here for 0.06 ppm PO4 isnt going to cause mass browning. Ive run double that or more for months and months and had very colorful sps. Problem lies elsewhere.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

I always dose Phos RX into my skimmer and havent had any problems. Anyway. Yet another vote here for 0.06 ppm PO4 isnt going to cause mass browning. Ive run double that or more for months and months and had very colorful sps. Problem lies elsewhere.

0.06 was a typo
His po4 is 0.6

 

[Bpb]

0.06 was a typo
His po4 is 0.6

My mistake. Missed that

 

[DrewBrees713]

Heard LC will also consume po4 and alkalinity simultaneously. Guess imma have to try something else or maybe pull my LR full of po4.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

LC will not effect alk enough to worry about unless you are dosing a lot. Dose LC at half the needed dose to lower it from .6 to .05, wait a day and repeat. Slowly lower po4 dont do it all at once. Its a dose to lower it and you dont need to dose it again until po4 rises again. I would not dose daily unless I was having a bad po4 issue that was staying constant. A large water change is always a good way to reduce unwated nutrients as well.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Yeah it was crap

0.4-0.6 is high but I hate gfo and carbon dosing, they made my numbers perfect but made my corals white skeletons. I prefer lanthium chloride to bring down phosphates. You might actually not have enough par and they’re brown from being stressed and starved. I’m in the 713 as well. I can bring my par meter over to rule that out.

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Cool. Thank you sir

 

[DrewBrees713]

LC will not effect alk enough to worry about unless you are dosing a lot. Dose LC at half the needed dose to lower it from .6 to .05, wait a day and repeat. Slowly lower po4 dont do it all at once. Its a dose to lower it and you dont need to dose it again until po4 rises again. I would not dose daily unless I was having a bad po4 issue that was staying constant. A large water change is always a good way to reduce unwated nutrients as well.

That really puts my mind at ease. My bro recently bought some expensive gfo and bragged about how much more efficient it works vs regular Gfo. Said he can give me some. Should i try give that a try or stick to the LC which i already have a bottle handy.

 

[Bpb]

That really puts my mind at ease. My bro recently bought some expensive gfo and bragged about how much more efficient it works vs regular Gfo. Said he can give me some. Should i try give that a try or stick to the LC which i already have a bottle handy.

Give it a try, but gfo is a pain to use and maintain. If you enjoy cleaning reactors out be my guest. Some people don’t mind. That’s my least favorite thing to do in the hobby. LC is so much easier to use. I just drip it in my skimmer

 

[YES]

I usually use gfo when needed to lower the po4 I don’t mind the maintenance of it but if you have a bottle already give it a try and if it doesn’t work then you can try gfo

 

[DrewBrees713]

Cool ill try the LC first thanks