Pesky phosphates

bobster911 · Apr 9, 2014

Hiya dudes and dude'ets to cut a long story short I was using a phosphate remover and my levels are rather high at the moment , I have sins bought myself a reactor and started using bio phos which I was told was one of the best removers on the market.

I have been using it for about 4 days now and my levels still are not dropping and I don't understand lol,

How long do these things take to remove phosphates and would there be anything I could be doing wrong?

Thanks for the time guys

x

skinz78 · Apr 10, 2014

Have you checked your phosphates in a newly mixed batch of water to see if you may be adding more in with every water change?

bobster911 · Apr 10, 2014

Yes dude I have , I check every batch before I do a change, also I did my last water change just before I added the reactor to my sump so no new water has been added sins

Reefing Madness · Apr 10, 2014

Drop in some Phosphate E or SeaKlear, you can rid your tank of Phosphates in a matter of days with the liquid stuff, then run the system with your reactor.

cginter · Apr 10, 2014

GFO high copacity works good. If that don't help look into vodka dosing. But all in all u should find out how the phosphates are getting into your system. Frozen food, lack of skimming, too much food, bad water etc. find the source first...

bobster911 · Apr 10, 2014

Thanks for that guys , think I have sorted it now, my levels were that high they were reading off my chart, so after setting the reactor up it tuck the first 4 days to bring the reading down to my charts highest level , now it's been running for a little longer I'm not showing any every time I do my test.

I don't feed that much as my tank has not been up long enough to support the fist I really want so far I only have 3 chromis , a coco worm and a snowflake eel (when he decides to show himself once a week if that lol)

I will get a hold of some of the liquid stuff though just incase , and I looked into carbon dosing but for my tank it seemed like it Wouldent be worth it.

The source of my phosphates was just a really bad choice in phosphate remover to begin with , and wasent doing a very good job hens why I got the reactor

But again thank you for the advice guys it's very much appreciated