Phos Help, GFO to fast?

[Raynhollister1]

Need some serious help and not sure if I'm pushing GFO to fast.
The tank has been running over 10 years. Its gone from beautiful to neglected and I'm trying to get it back to pristine.

I curse myself for using reef roids several times a week. I purchased a hammer and it almost immediately died. I checked all parameters and everything looked OK. I then went and bought all new test kits and crap. Nitrates were over 50ppm and the Hanna wouldn't read, phos was over .9, yeah holy crap.

Started GFO and 3 water changes 35% each time.
Tank is 90g with 30g sump. Skimmer is an Octo 150sss and I'm running a CW100 turf algea scrubber. The scrubber has been producing huge amounts of algea.

So in 7 days it went from .9 down to .22, yeah still high. Am I pushing it too fast? Should I ease up on the GFO and bring it down slower, less GFO? I know I need to catch up and keep the nutrients down. Nitrates are around 15ppm now.
Corals are open and seem to be a little happier.
Tank has nems, softies, and a few LPS.

 

[Idoc]

Reduce the parameters slowly to allow other coral in the tank to adapt to the changes.

So many threads on fast reductions with GFO and then other problems... like dinos.

Water change and slow reductions... it's going to take awhile to bring it back to pristine condition.

 

[Raynhollister1]

Reduce the parameters slowly to allow other coral in the tank to adapt to the changes.

So many threads on fast reductions with GFO and then other problems... like dinos.

Water change and slow reductions... it's going to take awhile to bring it back to pristine condition.

You are right, got up in the middle of the night and took all but a spec of the GFO out of reactor. Checked this morning and .21. Its high but if everything has been alive over .9 they should be okay. The tank should be happier with .21 until I can bring them down a lot slower.

My goal is .06 to .1 phos and 10-15ppm of Nitrates.
Thanks for in input.