jhadaway117
Community Member
So I’ve recently battled Dino’s and Cyano and then Dino’s again. Quite frankly my tank is doing better than ever, but the problem is I can’t keep phosphates at detectable level unless I dose daily.
This tank was started roughly 4 months ago with dry rock and live sand. I’m concerned that the phosphate issue will continue to give me issues. My coral are thriving and even showing good growth which is great, but i don’t want to continue to worry about these two again…lol. I’m even growing patches of coralline on my rocks and power heads!
So I guess my question is, at what point does the rock and sand become saturated with phosphate that I can become more comfortable with not testing every single day? Also, how can I induce growth of macro algae to outcompete the nuisance stuff? I use a Hannah checker by the way. This is a 33.5 gallon waterbox with roughly 25 lbs of dry rock. My parameters are below as well as pics of the tank.
Salinity 1.026
Alk 8.9
Nitrate 10 ppm
Phosphate .07 (Will be back to zero by morning)
Calcium 440
Mag 1300
PH (unknown) haven’t checked in a while and decided not to chase it) last I tested at 7.9)
This tank was started roughly 4 months ago with dry rock and live sand. I’m concerned that the phosphate issue will continue to give me issues. My coral are thriving and even showing good growth which is great, but i don’t want to continue to worry about these two again…lol. I’m even growing patches of coralline on my rocks and power heads!
So I guess my question is, at what point does the rock and sand become saturated with phosphate that I can become more comfortable with not testing every single day? Also, how can I induce growth of macro algae to outcompete the nuisance stuff? I use a Hannah checker by the way. This is a 33.5 gallon waterbox with roughly 25 lbs of dry rock. My parameters are below as well as pics of the tank.
Salinity 1.026
Alk 8.9
Nitrate 10 ppm
Phosphate .07 (Will be back to zero by morning)
Calcium 440
Mag 1300
PH (unknown) haven’t checked in a while and decided not to chase it) last I tested at 7.9)
