Temporary high phosphates for SPS?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

Wow, am surprised at how high temps the corals and fish can handle.

Just a note, when I say they were fine, they were fine and brown. So not REALLY fine, but not dead, and they did grow quite a bit

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Just a note, when I say they were fine, they were fine and brown. So not REALLY fine, but not dead, and they did grow quite a bit

Understood..., but like I said, my downstairs tank has only LPS and softies, The upstairs tank has the SPS and is kept constant at around 78. It could not survive without a chiller, I'm quite sure...

Other than the summer, my downstairs tank is fine without a chiller, as that is in the basement floor, and the room temps down there are usually 70 or less. But on the main floor, where we have the thermostat, I have the AC kick in at 75. We have a northwest exposure there, so doesn't take a lot to get up that high when it is sunny out.

What happens, though, when the central AC runs, is the downstairs actually heats up, as the air circulates throughout the house. So the room temps down there are at least 5 F degrees higher than winter or spring. I know, sounds like of weird, but that is what happens....

[FishyFishy!]

Reallistically, to do this properly, you would want to run both products on both tanks, so that they are fairly in sync as far as perameters are concerned when you combine the systems. I think that from 0 to around 1.0 is a pretty large difference when phosphates are concerned. I would try to get the parameters more on the same level.

Are you able to put GFO and BioPellets on both tanks to start before you combine them?

Salinity is huge too. I combined two tanks once, not knowing that my salinity was waaaay off in one of the tanks (thanks to a plastic hydrometer) and the tank with the lower salinity's inhabitants all died. (mind you, this was just combining inhabitants into one tank, not sharing system water like you are, but still the same idea).

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

Reallistically, to do this properly, you would want to run both products on both tanks, so that they are fairly in sync as far as perameters are concerned when you combine the systems. I think that from 0 to around 1.0 is a pretty large difference when phosphates are concerned. I would try to get the parameters more on the same level.

Are you able to put GFO and BioPellets on both tanks to start before you combine them?

Salinity is huge too. I combined two tanks once, not knowing that my salinity was waaaay off in one of the tanks (thanks to a plastic hydrometer) and the tank with the lower salinity's inhabitants all died. (mind you, this was just combining inhabitants into one tank, not sharing system water like you are, but still the same idea).

I agree, and ideally want to get all parameters the same before combining the tanks. Salinity is very close to the same, though, as when I do water changes, I only put new SW in the main floor tank, and the downstairs tank gets the old water from that tank. Saves on salt costs....

And by moving my GFO over to the downstairs tank sump, I have brought the P04 down to .62 when I last checked a few days ago. I also just changed out the GFO, so will check again in a couple days, and hopefully it will be down more. The good news is that the main floor tank (with the SPS) still has zero phosphates with just the bio pellet reactor running.