Good Evening and Happy Halloween!
The last couple times I have measured my phosphates they have started to climb. I am currently using the Hanna Phosphate ULR checker. I have a 425xl and my current phosphate measurements are:
Oct 18th: 0.11 ppm
Oct 24th: 15 Gallon water change (Working a weekly water change right now to bring up my salinity slowly. It started at 1.021 about 5-6 weeks ago and I am trying to bring it up to 1.025 or 1.026. Right now I am at 1.023 and should be a little higher after tomorrows water change)
Oct 25th: 0.16 ppm
Oct 31th: 0.23 ppm
Planning on another 15 gallon water change tomorrow just letting the salt mix over night
A couple things have changed since the 0.11 measurement which is the lowest I have ever had and and am not sure what could be causing the phosphate to rise or if it could be a combination of all of them at all and just wanted to get some advice.
I wasn't sure if anything above was causing anything I am not aware of or if I should start maybe removing some phosphate using a single reactor with some GFO or some other method. Thanks for all the help!
The last couple times I have measured my phosphates they have started to climb. I am currently using the Hanna Phosphate ULR checker. I have a 425xl and my current phosphate measurements are:
Oct 18th: 0.11 ppm
Oct 24th: 15 Gallon water change (Working a weekly water change right now to bring up my salinity slowly. It started at 1.021 about 5-6 weeks ago and I am trying to bring it up to 1.025 or 1.026. Right now I am at 1.023 and should be a little higher after tomorrows water change)
Oct 25th: 0.16 ppm
Oct 31th: 0.23 ppm
Planning on another 15 gallon water change tomorrow just letting the salt mix over night
A couple things have changed since the 0.11 measurement which is the lowest I have ever had and and am not sure what could be causing the phosphate to rise or if it could be a combination of all of them at all and just wanted to get some advice.
- I have started to dose twice a week Red Sea AB+ for a couple weeks now and not sure if that would be driving my phosphate up at all
- I have started to feed my fish more as well. Before I was feeding twice a day once in the morning and once in the evening but I have switched to three times a day:
- Morning: Flakes, Mid Day: Flakes or 1/2 Cube Frozen Mysis Shrimp, Evening: Depending on Mid Day just swap between flakes and shrimp. So flakes twice a day and shrimp once a day. I usually turn off return pump and keep my wavemaker running and turn the pump back on about 15 min later
- My current bio situation: 2 Clowns, 1 Cleaner shrimp, 1 Flame Hawkfish, 1 Dispar Anthid (1 had one die a couple days after I brought it home but the other one has been acting fine), Clean up crew featuring snails, hermits and 1 medium sized conch,
- I recently re did my aquascape and moved my life rock around. I am adding more rock and about 2 weeks or so ago I started adding dry carbisea base rock. I just started with two piece and plan on adding one piece every couple weeks or should I space it out more?
I wasn't sure if anything above was causing anything I am not aware of or if I should start maybe removing some phosphate using a single reactor with some GFO or some other method. Thanks for all the help!