New Hanna checker NEED to correct phosphates ideas on how.

[Formulator]

Wait do you got sps thriving with nice colors at 0.4 phosphate? What are you nitrates and how are you delivering them. And how do your phosphate sit higher do you feed a coral food or fish food that is boosting it or nori or are you dosing? Just curious

0.4 ppm is fine for some SPS. In fact some tolerate even higher phosphate. My large anacropora here grows like a weed with great color and my phosphate problem was much worse than yours (2.0 ppm). My acros browned out though and are just starting to color back up at 0.2 ppm. I’m aiming for 0.1. If you don’t have a desire to keep acros, 0.5 ppm is probably fine based on my experience.

 

[PotatoPig]

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[PotatoPig]

Wait do you got sps thriving with nice colors at 0.4 phosphate? What are you nitrates and how are you delivering them. And how do your phosphate sit higher do you feed a coral food or fish food that is boosting it or nori or are you dosing? Just curious

Nitrates typically sit around 20 ish, occasionally they dip down below 10 and I’ll dose ammonia to stop them bottoming out.

For SPS I’m kinda new, and selecting “easy” SPS (two plating montis, a Stylocoeniella, Digitata, two easier Acros (purple and frogskin), a birds nest, a firework Lepto and a limelight hydrophora - I see these classed as both SPS and LPS) but so far I’m seeing good growth and consistent polyp extensions - sometimes too good, for example I have a Stylocoeniella that you can’t see the colors on most of the time because the polyps are always way out unless something walks over it.

I attempted to post photos but from the phone everything went weird.

 

[ajremington68]

0.4 ppm is fine for some SPS. In fact some tolerate even higher phosphate. My large anacropora here grows like a weed with great color and my phosphate problem was much worse than yours (2.0 ppm). My acros browned out though and are just starting to color back up at 0.2 ppm. I’m aiming for 0.1. If you don’t have a desire to keep acros, 0.5 ppm is probably fine based on my experience.

I do have the sps itch coming in and I’m finding myself buying more so just trying to get my phosphates under control slowly now. My real problem is I almost never have nitrates, but I just bought and made ammonia bicarbonate and having it dosing 5ml a day split up over the whole day so I will give it a month look over the numbers and my corals and increase or decrease from there.

 

[ajremington68]

Nitrates typically sit around 20 ish, occasionally they dip down below 10 and I’ll dose ammonia to stop them bottoming out.

For SPS I’m kinda new, and selecting “easy” SPS (two plating montis, a Stylocoeniella, Digitata, two easier Acros (purple and frogskin), a birds nest, a firework Lepto and a limelight hydrophora - I see these classed as both SPS and LPS) but so far I’m seeing good growth and consistent polyp extensions - sometimes too good, for example I have a Stylocoeniella that you can’t see the colors on most of the time because the polyps are always way out unless something walks over it.

I attempted to post photos but from the phone everything went weird.

What do you give props to for you nitrates being at 20ppm? Heavy feeding lots of fish or are you dosing?