Wow, love your dsr system glenn. I have a 135g tank, and do a 20g wc almost every 8-9 days with seachem reefsalt mix. Dosing brs 2 parts, and running gfo and skimmer. all corals and livestock is alive. My only problem is i cant feed heavy, or else i cant control the Phos even with the routine wc. Would love to see a better solution to it other than wc when phos peeks up. Thx
First you need to find the reason why you PO4 is always creeping op.
WC is imo the way to do when you don't want to thinks about these isssues, but just execute the standaard routines.
Heavy feeding demand a structural way of removing your excesses.
But first you need to (re)assess if what you want, is within physical possible boundaries.
you need to evaluate if the PO4 you put into you tank is possible to remove with various methods and what way is most cost effective to remove it.
As randy pointed out there are many ways to remove PO4 . The one is more suitable, efficient, and cost efficient than the other.
Some have their limitation and others are way to expensive to be using on daily bases, others require more space you maybe don't have. So there is always a choice that suit your purpose best, even if it's not the best of all....
These are the questions to be asking:
- is your tank overstocked with fish ?
- what do you feed you thank with?
- do you overfeed and why?
- what do you use to replace evaporated water.
- is this water pure enough and do you use a RO device with DI filter? (TDS measurement on input/output DI filter is recommended.
- is you skimmer full functioning and up to the job?
- is you lighting sufficient and the right one for the job?
- how do you remove dertritus?
- is there enough random operated streamers in the tank
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