Tank Concerns

[Startin5]

Good Morning Reefers;

My water was cloudy yesterday and my corals didn’t look happy at all, zoas weren’t opening, and I was noticing that something was “off”. For two days I have been manually dosing with NoPox, because my nitrates and phosphates were hi. I just completed a testing cycle at 4:00AM and here are my results......
Alk - 10.5 DKH
Cal - 450
Mag - 1400
Nitrate - .25
Nitrite - 0
P.H. 7.93
Sal - 1.024
Temp - 77.2
My last water change was 8 days ago ... should I do another one ? Or wait to allow the NoPox to lower my levels of Nitrate and Phosphates .... or do I discontinue the NoPox all together?

Currently my tank is asleep... or I would have taken pictures

 

[piranhaman00]

How do you measure 0.25ppm? What is your phosphate?

I’m not familiar with that chemical but sounds like a bacterial bloom. I would water change and stop using that stuff

 

[Dbichler]

If you just started dosing nopox you probably overdosed the tank. A large water change would help but you could also wait it out. Make sure your protein skimmer is set on the wet side of skimming. With nitrates at .25 I wouldnt see the need for nopox though imo.

 

[lapin]

nopox is carbon.
it is fuel for bacteria.
some of that bacteria consume nitrate and phosphate.
LIke said above you prob have a bacterial bloom that might be using up oxygen in your water making things a bit unhappy.
See post number 4 of this thread for more info

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[Startin5]

How do you measure 0.25ppm? What is your phosphate?

I’m not familiar with that chemical but sounds like a bacterial bloom. I would water change and stop using that stuff

I just bought a Hanna Phosphate checker and the Reading was 0.33 ppm, I’m not sure how to convert this or if this is the true number? If it is this would be extremely too high .... do you have any suggestions?

 

[Startin5]

If you just started dosing nopox you probably overdosed the tank. A large water change would help but you could also wait it out. Make sure your protein skimmer is set on the wet side of skimming. With nitrates at .25 I wouldnt see the need for nopox though imo.

Thank you for your reply.... I have noticed that my skimmer is going crazy... I will start with a water change

 

[piranhaman00]

I just bought a Hanna Phosphate checker and the Reading was 0.33 ppm, I’m not sure how to convert this or if this is the true number? If it is this would be extremely too high .... do you have any suggestions?

Which checker? One measures in ppm but is high range, the other is ppb but you need to convert to phosphate.

0.33 ppm is not extremely too high, if there are no algae issues I wouldn’t be concernedz

 

[Startin5]

Which checker? One measures in ppm but is high range, the other is ppb but you need to convert to phosphate.

0.33 ppm is not extremely too high, if there are no algae issues I wouldn’t be concernedz

The Hanna HL774 .... it measures ppm