How do YOU lower your Nitrates and Phosphates?

[PoonTang]

Funnily enough I have never had a problem with any Cyano or cloudiness or bleaching with using the beads

[ScubaSteve]

Man, some of these other methods sounds like finicky headaches with a potential for disaster. Making me reconsider my idea of trying something else...

[davidwillson]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Man, some of these other methods sounds like finicky headaches with a potential for disaster. Making me reconsider my idea of trying something else...

mostly water changes for nitrates iVe went down from 20 to 5 but ive had to replace old rock and cut my feeding down alot. it would seem im stuck ay 5 though so im considering other options so ill be following along here closely

[rayjay]

I've never tested for phosphates in my tank, only in the foods I use.
As for nitrates, I haven't tested for that in any of my tanks for probably at least 15 years now.

[reefwars]

mostly water changes for nitrates iVe went down from 20 to 5 but ive had to replace old rock and cut my feeding down alot. it would seem im stuck ay 5 though so im considering other options so ill be following along here closely

for my new set up after christmas im going to be using a phosban reactor and keeping a better eye on things right from the start.

my old 180 i bought second hand off another reefer , nitrates were off the chart ,literally ,lol we took it on as a project and got them down to 40 with massive water changes and reduced light to kill the hair algae. id say about 80% of the tank was completely engulfed in hair algae and not the odd patch i mean completely covered in long algae.all ther corals were dead and covered in algae all the glass was covered and only but a couple of fish were saveable ahhh goodtimes learned alot from that set up

[Murminator]

I have no nitrates but my phosphates are through the roof and i don't know what to do

[untamed]

Massive skimming, and I grow as much macro algae as possible in the fuge. I also run a little phosban.

Your recent nitrate spike is probably just the logical follow on to an ammonia spike, and a nitrite spike.

[whatcaneyedo]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

Funnily enough I have never had a problem with any Cyano or cloudiness or bleaching with using the beads

Cloudiness was minor for me and only lasted a day or two. Bleaching only occurred in several soft corals and there was only minor color loss in some LPS (listed in my above post). All of my other coral including different species of soft, LPS and SPS appeared to be completely unaffected. I tried out a variety pack of that pro bio stuff a month before trying the pellets and I noticed that all of my cyano disappeared during that time period.

[steve fedyk]

I use posban, daily water changes, fuge and skimmer to keep my po4 and nitrates low

[Youngster Dan]

I think somewhat overlooked, and honestly one of the harder things to do is just to keep the bioload down and not feed a tonne. It is hard not to add that extra fish!