a big water change or two will help a lot!Seem like the same results as the past few days. Added 0.50mg/L today. That was all I had left of the seachem bottle, so hopefully some better results tomorrow. I have noticed the algae in the refugium is getting much greener! Hopefully that is a good sign that this is working. I think I’ll do a 25% water change and give it a week to rest as I’ll be out of town. Don’t want to bother the tank sitter with to much.
I guess that sums it up! lolBy giving up and paying someone else to solve it with potions of unknown content?
Before I started dosing PO4 the cheato was dying off. It was a very pale green, and went from a couple softball sized chunks to about a golf ball size piece. Since adding the po4 it has turned a much darker green and the sump has a lot of green algae growing on the rocks and glass. The chato is still almost the same size, but I’m assuming that small a piece will take time to regain size. I still have my biopellet running, but I’m not dosing any other carbon sources.
I think my nitrate can support both. They have never been under 60ppm, however my PO4 has been very low the whole time. Always unreadable with the api kit. This is why I’m trying the addition of PO4 to see if the Redfield ratio is playing a part in my extreme nitrates. I have a little over a liter of pellets that have been running several months now with little decrease in nitrates. Ideally I would like to just have a large refugium and not have to carbon dose, but I have been told a million different things to use to “lower” my nitrates that haven’t worked. I only leave the biopellet reactor online because I don’t want to lose a large part of my beneficial bacteria. I’m hoping to see some positive results from dosing po4 this weekend. Then I can hopefully be on my way to a stable reef chemistry!
