Phosphates

[Marie7]

I'm curios about how many of you guys have or in the past had the same problem with Phosphates and members of your tank crew, I'm talking about an eel.
I had to re-home my snowhite eel because I judge after a while that part of my problem has to do with the eel, by adding silverside, the only thing she eats my phosphates did not come down no matter how many water changes i did or how less I feed her, the phosphate remover equipment I bought that you put the beads inside wasn't even working (pay a lot for it).
Yesterday with a heavy heart I had to bring it to my friend reef store, It wasn't an easy decision but I needed to make it if I didn't want to continue loosing fishes, I lost couple big one's a yellow tang a kuran a bi-color a coral beauty and another tang, levels was to toxic on my tank when it came to phosphates, I wonder if I made the right decision on this and if I will see any changes on this machine either work or lower the phosphates.

 

[Bnutz]

I've been having phosphates in the .5 range and algae taking over the tank. I used 2 cans of phosoguard from seachem to no avail. Phosphate would drop .1 with double the recommended dose and jump back up the next day. I run a gfo reactor now and it sustains a lower phosphate level of .05. I also found a sponge in my sump area under the chaeto that was nasty. I removed it the same day as I started gfo. Not sure which helped though

 

[WVNed]

I have several fish including 2 eels and 2 lions, 2 large angels, etc., I am running Nopox on a doser plus a reactor with 1000ml of biopellets in it and run GFO in a reactor.
You have to do what you have to do.

I can feed my animals without worry.

 

[Marie7]

I have several fish including 2 eels and 2 lions, 2 large angels, etc., I am running Nopox on a doser plus a reactor with 1000ml of biopellets in it and run GFO in a reactor.
You have to do what you have to do.

I can feed my animals without worry.

If I run NoPox on my tank I can not add the blue clam I want to put in, as I been told that it will kill it... Last night I removed the sponge on my sump and cleaned I was surprise to see a thick dirty coat of stuff that it has all over

 

[Marie7]

I've been having phosphates in the .5 range and algae taking over the tank. I used 2 cans of phosoguard from seachem to no avail. Phosphate would drop .1 with double the recommended dose and jump back up the next day. I run a gfo reactor now and it sustains a lower phosphate level of .05. I also found a sponge in my sump area under the chaeto that was nasty. I removed it the same day as I started gfo. Not sure which helped though

I did the same thing last night, remove that long sponge and cleaned, it was very dirty hopefully i hope that will lower it

 

[spacey]

If I run NoPox on my tank I can not add the blue clam I want to put in, as I been told that it will kill it... Last night I removed the sponge on my sump and cleaned I was surprise to see a thick dirty coat of stuff that it has all over

Naah, my Maxima, also blue, has been thriving for the past 6 months since I "discovered" NoPox. No problem there at all.

 

[Uncle99]

If I run NoPox on my tank I can not add the blue clam I want to put in, as I been told that it will kill it... Last night I removed the sponge on my sump and cleaned I was surprise to see a thick dirty coat of stuff that it has all over

I have been dosing Nopox for 5 years and have 6 clams, so kill them, nope.