Hello!
I've been dosing phosphate for about a month in an attempt to raise my phosphates which were at 0. I started with the 'flourish phosphorus" from seachem and swapped to trisodium phosphate after recommendations here. I'm dosing alot of it and the phosphates still aren't climbing, and now my Nitrates have bottomed out.
**My refugium has been EXPLODING in growth and thus, I suspect that it was using the phosphates with the nitrates to grow which caused my nutrient bottoming out. I've turned it off and it's only on for 4 hours every other day.**
I've noticed that my corals (acroporas) looked a lot better after a few days of dosing phosphates, but alas, this week I've noticed a beginning of dinos and poorer coral tissue health. I suspect the nitrates and phosphates are the culprits as my other parameters are quite stable.
pH: 8-8.4
Dkh : 9 +- 0.5
Going back to the problem at hand:
- I'm now around 20ppb after 3 weeks of adding 24ml daily in my 220g system of a 1,88g/L solution of Na3Po4. I feel like cranking this up isn't wise and I should keep at it until it shows on my test kits.
- Nitrates bottomed out and I need to raise them.
Here's what I've done so far:
I've fed 4x a day for the last 2 months (fat fish, happy fish!)
I've turned on my skimmer only for 4 hours a day
Stopped auto water change (3g/day)
Here's my thought for solving the issue:
1. dose nitrate to raise the values of my nutrients.
2. Slowly let it rise naturally. The values should go back up as I've lowered my nutrient export temporarily.
3. a bit of both.
I would like to hear your thoughts on how to solve this issue! Thanks
I've been dosing phosphate for about a month in an attempt to raise my phosphates which were at 0. I started with the 'flourish phosphorus" from seachem and swapped to trisodium phosphate after recommendations here. I'm dosing alot of it and the phosphates still aren't climbing, and now my Nitrates have bottomed out.
**My refugium has been EXPLODING in growth and thus, I suspect that it was using the phosphates with the nitrates to grow which caused my nutrient bottoming out. I've turned it off and it's only on for 4 hours every other day.**
I've noticed that my corals (acroporas) looked a lot better after a few days of dosing phosphates, but alas, this week I've noticed a beginning of dinos and poorer coral tissue health. I suspect the nitrates and phosphates are the culprits as my other parameters are quite stable.
pH: 8-8.4
Dkh : 9 +- 0.5
Going back to the problem at hand:
- I'm now around 20ppb after 3 weeks of adding 24ml daily in my 220g system of a 1,88g/L solution of Na3Po4. I feel like cranking this up isn't wise and I should keep at it until it shows on my test kits.
- Nitrates bottomed out and I need to raise them.
Here's what I've done so far:
I've fed 4x a day for the last 2 months (fat fish, happy fish!)
I've turned on my skimmer only for 4 hours a day
Stopped auto water change (3g/day)
Here's my thought for solving the issue:
1. dose nitrate to raise the values of my nutrients.
2. Slowly let it rise naturally. The values should go back up as I've lowered my nutrient export temporarily.
3. a bit of both.
I would like to hear your thoughts on how to solve this issue! Thanks