phosphates always at 0 help

[jenreefer]

I have the same problem in my 60 gallon cube. I didn't start from dry rock but I am extremely religious on water changes twice a week 5 to 10 gallons each time. zero phosphate zero nitrates and all my SPS was looking very pale. I was dozing reef Energy but at a small amount as was suggested by a buddy. His idea was that I didn't have very much SPS in my tank therefore I shouldn't need to doses much. I think the other problem was the fact that my skimmer is rated for a much much larger tank given that it's stated it's for a 200 gallon tank or a very heavily stocked 90 gallon, running in a 60 gallon that's not heavily stocked. So now what I do is I turn off my return pump when I does my reef energy as well as I doubled the amount to the appropriate amount labeled on the box. And within two weeks all of my corals of colored up quite nicely.

Great to hear. I will give it a try. All this doing everything right has caused nutrients to be way too low. Thanks for the input.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Great to hear. I will give it a try. All this doing everything right has caused nutrients to be way too low. Thanks for the input.

Three rights do make a left.

 

[Diesel]

Jen, we can talk Po4 and No3 tomorrow, if my own dosing schedule didn't put me off

 

[jenreefer]

Jen, we can talk Po4 and No3 tomorrow, if my own dosing schedule didn't put me off

Be still my heart. A one on one with the one and only Diesel.

 

[Diesel]

Let's just stick to the subject

 

[spscubed]

It's true when they say sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Jen, we can talk Po4 and No3 tomorrow, if my own dosing schedule didn't put me off

Be still my heart. A one on one with the one and only Diesel.

Let's just stick to the subject

It's true when they say sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.

You mean too much diesel?

 

[Diesel]

You mean too much diesel?

You can't never have to much of the Diesel, and that's a true fact.
Dropping that with a straight face

 

[spscubed]

Haha I was simply referring to zero nitrates and phosphates, but now that I think about it [emoji848]

 

[coralseas]

I have a relatively new tank. 4 months old. 60g cube. No matter what I do I cannot get phosphates to read anything but 0. SPS are pale and I have been told and read that PO4 needs to be barely readable. Soooooo, how do I get phosphates in this range without going too far into algaeville?
Is there a solution I can make up to slowly add some to the tank? Thanks

macro algae in fuge may be sucking all the phosphate out of the system. Should I remove it for now?
Also previously was dosing vodka, stopped that about a month ago to let No3 and Po4 rise a bit. Still no PO4.

Only 4 fish in tank, but about to add 4 more. should help a bit.

all other parameters are spot on with Salifert tests, hanna checkers and ph probe.

never thought I would be having to raise PO4, but here I am.

Thanks in advance
Jen

I have been having the same issues with my king also, it's been up for year and I've been doing religious water changes, I think of that sps dominant thing. I end up taking all the macro algae out of my refusing home. Which help with my nitrate deficiency problem. And have been dosing with potassium nitrate. Stump remover,. I have also been trying to figure out how to raise my phosphates. I've been. I have been feeding the **** out of my fish also. But maybe I will try some of these routs too

 

[coralseas]

I have the same problem in my 60 gallon cube. I didn't start from dry rock but I am extremely religious on water changes twice a week 5 to 10 gallons each time. zero phosphate zero nitrates and all my SPS was looking very pale. I was dozing reef Energy but at a small amount as was suggested by a buddy. His idea was that I didn't have very much SPS in my tank therefore I shouldn't need to doses much. I think the other problem was the fact that my skimmer is rated for a much much larger tank given that it's stated it's for a 200 gallon tank or a very heavily stocked 90 gallon, running in a 60 gallon that's not heavily stocked. So now what I do is I turn off my return pump when I does my reef energy as well as I doubled the amount to the appropriate amount labeled on the box. And within two weeks all of my corals of colored up quite nicely.

Reef energy a and B?

 

[spscubed]

Yep a and b

 

[coralseas]

I purchased some monosodium phosphate on ebay. I've been dosing a small amount of that every few days. When I test after dosing, I get .02-04ppm. When I test 24hrs later, it's always 0.00. It seems to have made a significant contribution to my SPS colors.

Not sure about the flourish mentioned above, but with the monosodium phosphate it takes only a tiny amount, I try to dose around .015g at a time.

What type of mono sodium phosphate did you buy? Is it a powder or liquid? I'm interested in dosing it also.

 

[dragon99]

powder. Something like this:
http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-premium-pure-monosodium-phosphate-4-oz-113-grams-pwdr