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Originally Posted by Myka
The Prime will detoxify ammonia. Read the label for cautionary advice and dose more. The API is actually my preferred test kit because it is a salicylate kit which only tests toxic ammonia and is compatible with ammonia detoxifiers. How old is the kit?
That is A LOT of food to be adding to the tank! Personally, I'm not a fan of liquid foods unless they are from nutrient lowering systems (like Zeovit, Fauna Marin, etc). You could try dropping the liquid foods (Zooplex, Microvert), and see if you notice any changes in the tank. I think you would only see positive changes. These foods are probably the major contributor to the elevated phosphate - 1 ppm is A LOT of phosphate. Would help to lower nitrate as well.
Coral Excel is a decent product, though I think it is possible to achieve the same results without using it.
What are your SPS colors like? Brightly colored throughout, brown with colored tips, generally rich colors, generally pastel colors...?
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colors in my sps could def be better, most are def pastel colors ,i havent had great success with sps any acros i add die off quickly and so far my birdnest is doing good lots of PE but hardly any color. my procillipora(crappy speller lol) is doing great its tripled in size in about two months.all my montys have great color but no growth.
id like to bring my phos down for sure and i believe you are right its coming from the food mostly, and lately ive been getting algae problems so my nitrates are def higher then whats being tested. my amonia test are around a year old i would say and the bottle is almost empty.i re tested tonight and im down to .5 after a 40% water change last night. what are your thoughts on phosphate remover from coralife or kent phosphate sponge?? do they work??
for my new set up i plan to take better care of whats going in so ill be using ro/di ,controller,phosban reactor,media reactors for carbon.ill have a full fuge with chaeto.ill also be logging certain feeding times so i feed more regulary and so i can keep better track of whats going in
