Nitrates and phosphates

[Reef.]

Would you say this is an option to just lower the nutrients and then continue a better maintenance schedule? Or is it part of your weekly maintenance

No its on going, you are adding nutrients all the time with food, but as you add more and more corals you will find the corals will start to feed on the po4 and nitrates, some people have to dose nitrates and po4 as their corals eat them all but thats likely a bit off yet.

Many ways to take nutrients out, you can not add them in the first place with adding food or if you like to add a lot of food you may need more equipment to take nutrients out, like roller mats, algae scrubbers etc

 

[elireefer7]

Think it's a banana hammock.

All these names

 

[elireefer7]

No its on going, you are adding nutrients all the time with food, but as you add more and more corals you will find the corals will start to feed on the po4 and nitrates, some people have to dose nitrates and po4 as their corals eat them all but thats likely a bit off yet.

Many ways to take nutrients out, you can not add them in the first olace either food or if you like to add a lot of food you may need more equipment to take tho nutrients out, like roller mats, algae scrubbers etc

Got it!

 

[elireefer7]

Think it's a banana hammock.

Someone gave me a frag of a paletta pink tip. When he was cutting the frag off the mother colony he took the colony out. When he cut it, the piece flew across the room for some reason. Ended up behind the couch. And it has been one of my fastest growing frags

 

[bobnicaragua]

Think it's a banana hammock.

Here is my Banana Hammock, it’s a fun acro to grow out

 

[elireefer7]

Here is my Banana Hammock, it’s a fun acro to grow out

Niceeeeeee

 

[gbroadbridge]

I can see where you are coming from but there are many routes to a good reef, hearing more than one way can be very beneficial and then its down to the OP to decide which way they want to go, its all part of learning , for every piece of equipment in this hobby and method to achieve a given result their are people that would swear its the wrong way or the equipment is absolutely needed yet others that would say the complete opposite.

Maybe a suggestion to the mods to implement a “help team” section where such one2one help can be given but where its also viewable by the forum as a whole.

I wonder whatever happened to the 'reef squad'

 

[schooncw]

So to ask a simple, silly question, why do you want to reduce your nutrients? Are you experiencing negative issues? You do not state the size of the system, what you keep or intend to.
I was panicking for too long with one of my tanks, an overstocked and overfed 120 gallon, heavily rocked LPS dominant system, in which PO never falls below 1.0 and NO3 usually in the 40-50 range. I run GFO, carbon and Phosguard 24/7, a packed bio pellet reactor, a macro algae reactor, do regular water changes, all for naught.
Thing is tho, the rock in the system is 30 or so years old and I know the PO is bound to it but now rely more on testing with my eyes, rather than test kits. Having said that, all is well, corals thrive, I have no nuisance algae and I dare say that I have more euphyllia in this 120 than many LFS's have in their store.

 

[14 foot reef]

Sounds good but this is a forum, the knowledge is meant for us all, not sure why you would bypass that and take away from this forum, you can give your advice, the OP can choose to only listen to your advice but imo it would add more to the forum to share that advice for everyone.

See how off tract this thread became, that's why I help on a one on one basis

 

[UMALUM]

See how off tract this thread became, that's why I help on a one on one basis

Bro, you can ask how many cups of reef crystals makes 5 gallons of 35 and get 47 responses. As annoying as it is I've learned to deal with it. If I didn't they would have booted me off a long time ago. Ultimately it's up to the OP to keep his thread from bouncing. 7 chiefs for every 10 indians usually doesn't end well.

 

[Mwatts12]

I got one crazy for you….. at .25 po4 and 40 no3 I wouldn’t touch a thing.

 

[GARRIGA]

Macroalgae solves both nutrients and co2 but if latter not a concern then carbon dosing much simpler and easier to fine tune. Need to determine all variables including space since refugium takes up more space than reactors or ATS yet much simpler to prune. Latter easier than a reactor. All can be tuned using light duration and intensity but not as simple as how much carbon dosed. Other factors such as wanting a place for pods impacts approach.

I've now been updated on target dosing carbon to reduce the affect on pH and going to test that next because for me simplicity best approach and adjusting a dosing pump beats fiddling with lights or the added space and plumbing needed. Having said that, might still deploy a small reactor large enough to control co2 but not nutrients. Hesitation being the constant removal and cleaning of the light and/or glass as film algae likely grows on that unless perhaps adding some CUC that can manage it. Set it and forget it big with me.

 

[Reef.]

See how off tract this thread became, that's why I help on a one on one basis

The OP got some advice in this thread, if you are saying the OP is not capable of extracting that advice from this thread then I don't think the OP should be Private messaging some random person on a forum and then only taking their advice, that would be daft.

 

[14 foot reef]

The OP got some advice in this thread, if you are saying the OP is not capable of extracting that advice from this thread then I don't think the OP should be Private messaging some random person on a forum and then only taking their advice, that would be daft.

I will kindly except that. and move on. Your input is always helpful to the members so thank you.

 

[Troylee]

I don’t see anything wrong with your numbers! Are your corals happy? That’s only real question! I’ve purposely ran my numbers up currently higher than your with dosing ammonia and phosphate and my sticks love it! A simple water change will bring them back down! I’d avoid chemicals and what not.

 

[bubbgee]

I got one crazy for you….. at .25 po4 and 40 no3 I wouldn’t touch a thing.

You're not experiencing browning of SPS or some LPS corals?