Advice on Nitrate/Phosphate problems

[Jaws]

From what I've heard bloodworms are always packed full of nutirents and I haven't heard of too many people using them. Same goes for mysis but not as much. You might want to try feeding more cyclopeeze and flake or pellet food more often and using mysis as a treat.

Also for phosphate, a phosban reactor works very well and is relatively inexpensive.

For Nitrate there's been a few people using a 5 or 10G sealed bucket almost full to the top with unused aragonite. Leave about 2 or three inches for water to pass over the sand. Pump some water from your sump or tank into the top few inches of one side of the bucket and out the other side back into the sump with enough flow to ensure nothing is going to settle on the sand like detritus. From what I've read this works like a charm. The sand soaks up all the nitrate and works very well as a pH buffer too. Change the sand when the you notice your nitrate going up again. I think it lasts a long time though. There's a thread on Canreef about this. I'll try and find it for you.