po4 and zeo

[mrhasan]

Took me a good 4/5 months to get the po4 to 0 (hanna); it was ugly in between the transition. It just takes a lot of time.

[waynemah]

I'll predict it's the test kit!

[Rice Reef]

Originally Posted by waynemah

I'll predict it's the test kit!

+1. I would borrow a buddy's phosphate test kit first before making a lot of changes. However, if PO4 is that high try to control reduce it and see if you are a le to find the source of the PO4 ( rocks leaching etc...). I am assuming you are running a full zeo routine and in the early stages you are dosing allot of food a k into the tank. I think running GFO will be ok. Good luck and hope you will be able to solve the problem.

[Wheelman76]

Originally Posted by xenon

We run full zeo on our 600g SPS system and cannot keep PO4 in check without GFO.

We only have 12 fish but we do also have 400 troches snails and 200 peppermint shrimps in there.

Damn thats a lot of snails and pep shrimps , I'm guessing you don't have any aptasia in your tank? Lol

[freezetyle]

Originally Posted by Proteus

I feed once a day mysis or like frozen. Change 5 gal water weekly
Fish list is
Black cap x2
McNeilli assessor
Yellow assessor
Royal gramma
Midas blenny

The gard part is watching coral suffer

Switch to feeding every other day. And bump up you water change to 10gallons

Sent from my SGH-I747M using Tapatalk

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by freezetyle

Switch to feeding every other day. And bump up you water change to 10gallons

Sent from my SGH-I747M using Tapatalk

Will do

[Proteus]

Ok. I did 15 gallon water change and will messure po4 in a few hours and check again in 24 hours. I removed my filter sock as it may be residue fronm washing machine.

I wasn't able to get new test kit today as I worked late

What bothers me the most is I used prodibio from day one and all was well I didn't think the change over would be so harsh

[Proteus]

Tested po4 at 0.16

Also dosed coral snow to remove the debris from doing wc and bowing off rocks

[MarkoD]

Which kit did you test with the second time?

[Ron99]

Originally Posted by Proteus

I removed my filter sock as it may be residue fronm washing machine.

Are you washing with detergent? That will have phosphates in it. Wash your filter socks in hot water only with a little bleach. No soap or detergent necessary.