So lost

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Well, Salifert shows over 1.0. Guess I’m screwed. Should I just sell the corals I have and start over or what? No clue what could be causing the phosphates.

Don't panic. lol

You can just strive for a tank like this, which is far nicer than most people's tanks and has very high phosphate:

Rich Ross - Home Tank - guess the phosphate

This tank was built before r2r, here is a link to some links about the build. http://packedhead.net/home-reef/ Current test results: 03-17-2017 Ammonia (NH3-4) Good 0 0.000 - 0.050 mg/L 03-17-2017 Nitrite (NO2) Good 0.006 0.000 - 0.100 mg/L 03-17-2017 Phosphate...

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[Wolters_88]

Don't panic. lol

You can just strive for a tank like this, which is far nicer than most people's tanks and has very high phosphate:

Rich Ross - Home Tank - guess the phosphate

This tank was built before r2r, here is a link to some links about the build. http://packedhead.net/home-reef/ Current test results: 03-17-2017 Ammonia (NH3-4) Good 0 0.000 - 0.050 mg/L 03-17-2017 Nitrite (NO2) Good 0.006 0.000 - 0.100 mg/L 03-17-2017 Phosphate...

www.reef2reef.com

I was under the assumption acro would not grow in environments like that?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I was under the assumption acro would not grow in environments like that?

Seems otherwise. Surprised many of us.

 

[waleedreef]

If you have no coral, run gfo.

why not with coral?

 

[michael lyons]

I have been fighting phosphates for months. Sometimes the Hannah even reads 2.5 which is the max. Everything in the tanks fine. So I don’t know what’s going on. I have been using no3p0x and I built up to the max and dose it daily. I have pho’s guard in. I do weekly 50% water changes. Cleans the sand weekly. This tanks only 6 months old. I don’t know what could be going on. I’m not feeding a ton. Once daily and it’s about the size of my pinky nail. Im wondering if I don’t have some sort of rock that leaches phosphates. Is that a thing?

I have a bio-cube 29 , and had same problem a few months ago.I tried everything till someone told me to take out my water pumps ( I have two ) and when I did , I found that both of them were caked full of old food on the propeller and its shaft. I took it out and took it apart in sink and could not believe all the crap on it.After i did that my phosphates started to come down and back to normal in like a week.

 

[ingchr1]

Got a question, my reagents say 713-0 and all the ones online for reordering say 713-25. Which ones do I need to order? My machine says HI 713 but a local guy said they are not all the same.

The 25 just means it's a pack of 25 reagents.

 

[Spare time]

why not with coral?

If you don't follow instructions it will drain phosphates really fast which can irritate some corals

 

[sfin52]

I test phosphates. 0.5-1 my nitrates are 80ppm

 

[waleedreef]

If you don't follow instructions it will drain phosphates really fast which can irritate some corals

gfo is used to balance phosphate not to reduce it till 0. you can use half quantity of advised by manual.