Janice
Member
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2016
- Location
- Mississauga
Hi: We have been using the Hanna Phosphate Checker on our two tanks. Our 32 G is 0.043 ppm and our 16 G tank is at 0.034 ppm. I know the recommended level is less than 0.03 ppm.
I am curious as to what type of fluctuation long time reefers see in their phosphate levels?
As or 32G was virtually empty after everything was killed with a bleach sabotage, it accumulated some algae growth (which I hate). So we left it empty until this week, when we added a few corals. We have not added any fish yet-although we did add a sand sifting starfish, a cleaner shrimp and a peppermint shrimp, as well as a porcelain blue crab, some hermit crabs and 2 Super Tongan Nassarius Snails. We have also been adding more Rowaphos GFO weekly, and the algae has still not died-although I have not noticed any new algae growth. Does the PO4 level have to be at 0.03 for a long time to get the algae to die?? Or is 0.03 just the goal, that very few actually reach? What do I have to do to kill off the rest of the algae?
I am curious as to what type of fluctuation long time reefers see in their phosphate levels?
As or 32G was virtually empty after everything was killed with a bleach sabotage, it accumulated some algae growth (which I hate). So we left it empty until this week, when we added a few corals. We have not added any fish yet-although we did add a sand sifting starfish, a cleaner shrimp and a peppermint shrimp, as well as a porcelain blue crab, some hermit crabs and 2 Super Tongan Nassarius Snails. We have also been adding more Rowaphos GFO weekly, and the algae has still not died-although I have not noticed any new algae growth. Does the PO4 level have to be at 0.03 for a long time to get the algae to die?? Or is 0.03 just the goal, that very few actually reach? What do I have to do to kill off the rest of the algae?
