Phosphate 0.65??

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So I always test my water before my water change and my henna checker gave me a reading of 0.65 how can I lower this in my biocube 29 my tank is a sps dom tank and lps. Also my ph was reading 7.8 what should I do for that the lowest I’ve ever had is 8.0
 
So I always test my water before my water change and my henna checker gave me a reading of 0.65 how can I lower this in my biocube 29 my tank is a sps dom tank and lps. Also my ph was reading 7.8 what should I do for that the lowest I’ve ever had is 8.0

GFO is easy way to remove phosphate. But real solution is to find out the cause making P in your tank.
 
How do I use gfo without a reactor and the tank is 3 years old I bought it established 2 months ago and I have a long nose hawkfish and added a Orange spotted goby Friday and added a few lps coral yesterday and a og bounce shroom yesterday also
 
So I always test my water before my water change and my henna checker gave me a reading of 0.65 how can I lower this in my biocube 29 my tank is a sps dom tank and lps. Also my ph was reading 7.8 what should I do for that the lowest I’ve ever had is 8.0

Are you having issues with your aquarium?
 
I only feed half a cube of mysis every other day and half of a salad shrimp to my rock flower anemone and dose the kz Nano pack
 
Out GFO in a mesh bag and put in the filter chamber.
Or do a big water change every other week.
 
If you are not having issues other than you testing it and saying that you have an issue.... I wouldn't go aggressively at this. I would just let my water changes take care of any issue in that size aquarium. Doesn't sound like you have an issue to me if your corals and everything are doing fine. If its not broke then don't fix it. Best advice I can give you. Chasing numbers will always get you in trouble.

If your phosphates are high and you have algae growing every where and sps have algae growing on the ends and cant grow due to phosphates then that's another story. JMO.
 
I would make sure that my ATO water has 0 phosphates and your water change water has zero phosphates and start from there gradually. I only say this because GFO can bring things down fast and with that little volume water can be tricky and may harm the corals if not done gradually. With water changes that often, I would think that you should be good unless the source water has allot of phosphates in it.
 
Just so you know. I run GFO reactor 24/7 on my aquarium, but I have almost 400 gallon volume total.
 
I have learned that if my corals are happy and show no changes, then I'm happy.
If my Phos is a little and I don't see any algae growing, then It's okay.
 
Always so many opinions. Here's another. Your phosphate is definitely too high, esp if you're keeping or planning on keeping SPS corals. How's your nitrate? If both are high, you could consider doing some carbon dosing, with vodka, vinegar, or a product like NO3PO4X; if you do start carbon dosing, be sure to have a protein skimmer going and use it aggressively. Then reduce the carbon dosing dramatically when nitrate gets close to zero. To just get phosphate down, GFO is your best bet. I use RowaPhos, but there are many good brands. Start with less than half the amount of GFO recommended, put it in its own bag, and put that bag in a filter sock or cup. Retest your phosphate level at least every other day to judge whether you need to add more or even take some out. In addition to these things, also increase your water change frequency (4X as often) until the nutrients come down. And make sure that your makeup and topoff water (RODI) is nutrient-free. This approach should bring your numbers in line fast enough that it doesn't take forever and slow enough that nothing in the tank suffers for it.
 
In that case, I'd skip the carbon dosing (wouldn't help anyway if your nitrate is already low) and go with GFO, water changes, and careful monitoring.
 
Always so many opinions. Here's another. Your phosphate is definitely too high, esp if you're keeping or planning on keeping SPS corals.

And here's another: I personally know of several tanks (including mine), and have read about many others, that grow SPS really well with phosphate numbers higher than 0.6 ppm. So my opinion is not to mess with anything unless it looks like things in the tank are struggling, or you have a lot of algae problems, as other posters have mentioned. In the past I've done far more harm to my tank by dropping the phosphates too fast, or by stripping them too low, than I have by just letting them be.
 

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