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I have never been able to keep my po4 in the range that i want without using gfo or phosrx to keep it down. I am going to just let it ride to see at which range it will come to equilibrium or how high it will rise. As long as the tank looks good im not going to waste anymore time with it. There are so many beautiful tanks out there with nitrate and phosphate all over the place without any specific ratio. Yours is one example. Your tank looks great for its young age.
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Exactly. When I set the tank up I would have loved nitrate to be between 20-30 and my phosphate between .1-.2. However that is not where my tank wants to be.
I do believe while trying to achieve certain nutrient target levels, that you definitely need to feed consistently. You cannot feed random. You can’t just toss in some pellets every time you walk by the tank, and then get upset when your levels are all over the place. I feed the exact same amount of food (depending on the day of the week) all of the time. And my tank just happens to stabilize at 15-30 nitrate and usually .3 phosphate. I would like to lower pO4 a little. However I am not willing to run a gfo reactor, dose lanthanum, run an algae scrubber etc. In the next couple of weeks I may run a tiny amount of GFO passively in a bag in my sump and see what happens. I agree, that just looking at your tank is always best
I do believe while trying to achieve certain nutrient target levels, that you definitely need to feed consistently. You cannot feed random. You can’t just toss in some pellets every time you walk by the tank, and then get upset when your levels are all over the place. I feed the exact same amount of food (depending on the day of the week) all of the time. And my tank just happens to stabilize at 15-30 nitrate and usually .3 phosphate. I would like to lower pO4 a little. However I am not willing to run a gfo reactor, dose lanthanum, run an algae scrubber etc. In the next couple of weeks I may run a tiny amount of GFO passively in a bag in my sump and see what happens. I agree, that just looking at your tank is always best
That is a high phosphate level but the eyes don't lie! I used to chase numbers but mainly paid attention to how the tank looks and I don't see any issues with how your tank looks!!!
Looking awesome man! So happy and healthy! Maybe one day..
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It is definitely high! Like I said I certainly don’t want it at .5!! I would love to.1-.2. I placed a very small amount of gfo in my sump. We will see.
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Thank you. It is definitely looking good. I hope you can turn things around. There is nothing like a packed sps tank!
I would take .5 and an SPS tank looking like that any day!
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So a couple of weeks ago I decided to completely re-do my aquascape. I had some zoanthids that went wild and I hated the look.
I spent a good amount of time building my scape out of dry rock, and gluing/mortaring it together. I loved it, but at the end of the day, starting with dry rock is not worth it to me. It’s rough in the beginning. Starting completely pest free is nice, however once you start bringing in frags, cuc, fish, etc you can end up with most of the pests anyways.
I went to the LFS and bought about 65 pounds of live rock. I had to remove my old scape all at once as it was one piece. This was not easy, I made a complete mess!! I had a few bins set up to hold corals once I chipped them off. However after I was done with the new aquascape the water in the bins was pretty cold. Corals were definitely stressed. I put almost all of my coral back in, minus a few that I just did not want. They were either too dull, too big, or too similar to other coral I wanted to keep.
The new rocks were nice. They were under a light at the LFS and were covered in coraline and had plenty of good critters/biome. After all my planning and fussing with the original rocks, I just basically piled these up!
Everything came out great, the tank looks much better. And more importantly no more pest zoanthids. I will never place zoas on the main rocks again. Over the next few weeks I lost two frags, but everything else is settling in nicely and starting to color up well.
I spent a good amount of time building my scape out of dry rock, and gluing/mortaring it together. I loved it, but at the end of the day, starting with dry rock is not worth it to me. It’s rough in the beginning. Starting completely pest free is nice, however once you start bringing in frags, cuc, fish, etc you can end up with most of the pests anyways.
I went to the LFS and bought about 65 pounds of live rock. I had to remove my old scape all at once as it was one piece. This was not easy, I made a complete mess!! I had a few bins set up to hold corals once I chipped them off. However after I was done with the new aquascape the water in the bins was pretty cold. Corals were definitely stressed. I put almost all of my coral back in, minus a few that I just did not want. They were either too dull, too big, or too similar to other coral I wanted to keep.
The new rocks were nice. They were under a light at the LFS and were covered in coraline and had plenty of good critters/biome. After all my planning and fussing with the original rocks, I just basically piled these up!
Everything came out great, the tank looks much better. And more importantly no more pest zoanthids. I will never place zoas on the main rocks again. Over the next few weeks I lost two frags, but everything else is settling in nicely and starting to color up well.
