Phosphate

domination2580 · May 31, 2016

Ok guys, as most people know ive had trouble with phosphates for a while. Gha is covering my back wall and my wave box. So going through and looking at the different options i have i decided to do two things. One is to clean up the algae and two is to take the phosphates out. Ok for the first one. To help the gha die a digestive death i got myself a molly miller blenny. So I'm hoping she takes good care of this stringy beast. For taking care of the problem i ordered seachems sea gel. It has phosban and carbon together. Now i have two powerheads in my tank. The main one is a jebaeo rw8 i believe. The second is a tunze wave box. The wavebox takes water in the top and a powerhead is on the bottom so theres always water going through it. It's not a big powerhead so it doesn't move a lot. What I'm going to do is make and egg crate to fit in the box, fill a filter bag with sea gell and set it in the wavebox. The water is always going through it. So my hopes are to slowly bring down the phosphates and clean the water.

jsker · May 31, 2016

I am guessing you are not running a sump? Why not just run GFO?

domination2580 · May 31, 2016

jsker said:
I am guessing you are not running a sump? Why not just run GFO?

Its the same as phosban lol just with carbon

jsker · May 31, 2016

Try running this, and all the carbon is doing is making the water clearer not much else unless you are try to get some meds out of the tank. I feed heavy, so I am going to have Po4's and I use a footie type nylon and put a half a cup in and change it twice a month. I pulled the GFO and started dosing H2O2 the see if this take care of my green hair algae and is seem to keep my phosphates down too. @cowboy can you help me out here and throw up a link to @twilliard H2O2 thread please

cowboy · May 31, 2016

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/back-at-it-peroxide-vrs-cyanobacteria.241002/page-47#post-2926912

Here you go I know @twilliard is working on the wright up to summarize the 50 pages of data, but that's still a ways out. About half way through it starts going in circles so focus on the first half.

domination2580 · May 31, 2016

And the water i want Chrystal clear hence the carbon. The phosban should take the po4 down

cowboy · May 31, 2016

Let's get some pictures also the use of H2O2 in conjuction with GFO will strip the tank of PO4. Another very viable option would be to set up an algae scrubber to out compete the GHA in the main DT.

acesfull44 · May 31, 2016

With my hair algae problem, I did a water change, removed what I could by hand, followed @twilliard advice and removed each rock that the algae was on, soaked in 3% peroxide and stuck back in tank. I added a sea hair as a "rental" for additional help, and changed out both my GFO and Carbon.

cowboy · May 31, 2016

Be careful not to remove all your PO4 as that would be bad for your coral.

domination2580 · May 31, 2016

As u can see 98% of the gha is one th back glass and the wavebox. Not much on rock at all so i cant see it being the rock leaching phosphate

cowboy · May 31, 2016

With the amount you have not much to stress about. I personally would go with an algae scrubber it will definitely out compete the amount you have.

domination2580 · May 31, 2016

I dont have the money for an algae scrubber.

cowboy · May 31, 2016

Make one I would never buy one for what they are. You can make one for like 20 bucks.

domination2580 · May 31, 2016

cowboy said:
Make one I would never buy one for what they are. You can make one for like 20 bucks.

Would love to know how lol

cowboy · May 31, 2016

Youtube diy algae scrubber the most expensive part is the light

domination2580 · Jun 6, 2016

My rock are now starting to get covered with gha. Started off just on the tank back wall. Since then i have removed it from the wall amd scraped it amd siphoned it out. Now my rock us under attack. Ive had a media reactor with seachems seagel in it for about 4 days now. How much longer do you think i should give the media reactor? I need this stuff gone. I'm doing everything i can. It's a 40b and just dosed 4 ml of peroxide. But was only the 3% solution.

cowboy · Jun 6, 2016

3% is fine and really when it comes to algae it's something we all deal with. To clean the rock you can actually pull the rock out and pour H2O2 directly on the algae and scrub with a tooth brush

domination2580 · Jun 6, 2016

cowboy said:
3% is fine and really when it comes to algae it's something we all deal with. To clean the rock you can actually pull the rock out and pour H2O2 directly on the algae and scrub with a tooth brush

Not possible. To many coral....amd a complete tear down if i do

ksc · Jun 6, 2016

If you are running a 40b you can do a bunch of water changes in conjunction with siphoning out the HA. Do 5gal's a day for a week and your phosphate levels will be reduced dramatically. Without knowing your levels, it's possible that your p04 media is done after a couple of days.