Save my tank!

[jason604]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

Well, it's your tank, so do what you like. But raising P04 is certainly not the route I would go.

If low P04 is so bad, then explain to me why ocean water is typically less than .03 ppm and as low as .005. Here is what Randy Holmes-Farley has to say about that. Do you think he is wrong!??
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-09/rhf/index.php#1

I don't think it's wrong but my problem was stripping water of p04 way too fast that I believe crashed my tank

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by jason604

I don't think it's wrong but my problem was stripping water of p04 way too fast that I believe crashed my tank

I thought you said your P04 was already zero, so how could you be stripping P04 from that??

Are you sure it was zero? Are you using a Hanna Checker? The color test kits will show zero long before the Hanna. The color kits can show zero while the Hanna will show .1 or higher. Then indeed you have to be careful not to lower too fast. But you still want to lower it, just more slowly.

[jason604]

Bought another sea hare to eat some long hair algae but seems like it's just going for the film algae again! Dammit. Checked my alk and it's at 10.2kh. Never been this high is it because a majority of my sps is dead so it's raising? Is this causing more sps to die cuz it's still happening. Guess I should lower my alk doser

[Skim]

Just wondering what salt do you use?

[jason604]

Originally Posted by Skim

Just wondering what salt do you use?

Been using instant ocean sea salt since day 1. Talked to my LFS and apparently I'm supposed to be using the instant ocean reef crystals instead