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08/14/2018, 03:49 AM | #1 |
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Brining phosphates up
Hey guy, so quick question. How can I bring my phosphates up from 0? They went from 0.06 to just 0 and my sps aré looking dull! I’m not running a gfo only have a refugium with cheato. I feed twice a day of frozen and it’s still not coming up. Thanks in advance
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08/14/2018, 02:40 PM | #2 |
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Do you have any algae growth? And how fast is cheato growing?
If it is consuming the P, you can reduce the photoperiod in the fuge. |
08/14/2018, 03:03 PM | #3 | |
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Cheato is growing but no rapid, I removed some as well and shut the light off for a day see if that helped. I’m also starting to get a lot of hair algae |
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08/14/2018, 03:15 PM | #4 | |
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Try to get rind of HA before trying to raise phosphates. |
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08/14/2018, 05:13 PM | #5 | |
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So should I feed less? Why do my corals look almost like dried out as they where doing great now they hardly have any pe and color is growing out |
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08/14/2018, 06:00 PM | #6 | |
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Right now, if you add more P, it will just cause HA to grow more. It is the reason why your P is at 0, all P you add is being taken up by the HA. |
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08/14/2018, 06:48 PM | #7 | |
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I’d figured that. My nitrates are at 5 my alk is at 8.9 from 8.4 been trying to get them down slowly to 8.0 but not having any luck they just stay at 8.9 |
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