Tank Journal Archive

JimmyDang · May 21, 2013

Your tanks just over stocked I reckon with corals and you aren't depleting your po4 levels quick enough hence the excessive algae growth..if you do weekly water changes for a month and your tank looks better. Than that's how much your po4 needs to sit at to keep the tank in its optimum state. Just some thoughts to maybe why.

leodb89 · May 21, 2013

JimmyDang said:
Your tanks just over stocked I reckon with corals and you aren't depleting your po4 levels quick enough hence the excessive algae growth..if you do weekly water changes for a month and your tank looks better. Than that's how much your po4 needs to sit at to keep the tank in its optimum state. Just some thoughts to maybe why.

i wasnt aware that you could overstock on corals...ill do a read up on it...i think (from past reading) the only issue with excessive corals is that trace elements and calcium/alk deplete quicker, although as for phosphates it would only be an issue if you were heavily feeding the tank for the corals, which i do not do, although i used to be slack on water changes so i will continue doing weekly changes to see if it improves :)

leodb89 · May 21, 2013

aussieant32 said:
why would lighting increase phosphates?

I cant remember was your phosphate high before? Might be leaching

my phosphates were like 0.86 then i did a water chance and changed my rowaphos and it came down to 0.09 i have a feeling something may be leaching but i have no idea what....as for the lights i read up that it creates too much CO2 which can encourage the algae to grow, and there have been times ive notices air bubble on the rocks sometimes

LEG-IT · May 21, 2013

looking nice! shame about the algae.

From what i can recall the sexy shrimp wasn't exactly free, just happened to be a nice surprise haha

Elias · May 21, 2013

Everyones tank goes through shit stages, water changes and patience will cure it. Still looking mighty schmick Leo. NOICE CLAMS!

aussieant32 · May 21, 2013

my guess would be your rocks leaching mate

leodb89 · May 21, 2013

Aquaroche don't leach :p but could be the other BR I have

aussieant32 · May 21, 2013

by leaching I mean the rock has absorbed the high phosphates and now leaching it into the tank, most porous rocks will do this, unless it is not porous?

daniel borja · May 21, 2013

i might have this problem also. wont know until i start dosing some brightwell phosphat-E. does anyone know if LFS stock these or would it have to be bought online?

JimmyDang · May 22, 2013

Corals produce waste aswells brother, so if you're corals eat. They poop. What is poop...but to the main point..if you feed your corals. Which is still feeding. Like your gonis and lps maybe..if they're consuming any source of food besides photosynthesising..they will add to those unwanted levels by expelling their waste into the water. Gotta remember corals are animals aswells. Not plants. So they eat and produce waste. :)

MTG · May 22, 2013

JimmyDang said:
Corals produce waste aswells brother, so if you're corals eat. They poop. What is poop...but to the main point..if you feed your corals. Which is still feeding. Like your gonis and lps maybe..if they're consuming any source of food besides photosynthesising..they will add to those unwanted levels by expelling their waste into the water. Gotta remember corals are animals aswells. Not plants. So they eat and produce waste. :)

Very minimal not enough to raise phos like he has

MTG · May 22, 2013

aussieant32 said:
my guess would be your rocks leaching mate

definitely leaching from the rock, almost everyone goes through this issue until all the bound phos is removed

Joshwaaaa · May 22, 2013

^^^ What they said, 0.82 is damn high phosphate. Your rocks and sand would have absorbed a lot of it over time, so it will take a lot longer to get it all back out again. Keep up water changes and rowaphos changes when need and it will get there in the end.

leodb89 · May 22, 2013

aussieant32 said:
by leaching I mean the rock has absorbed the high phosphates and now leaching it into the tank, most porous rocks will do this, unless it is not porous?

oh yeah roche is super porous hmmm could be

leodb89 · May 22, 2013

well my plan to keep up the WC's will continue so hopefully i can bring it down and out that way instead of wasting all my RowaPhos

JimmyDang · May 22, 2013

MTG said:
Very minimal not enough to raise phos like he has

Fair enough. Lol, just some, thoughts as it seems is phos levels are always on the high side. But I really do like how his tanks coming along. Cool inverts

JimmyDang · May 22, 2013

leodb89 said:
well my plan to keep up the WC's will continue so hopefully i can bring it down and out that way instead of wasting all my RowaPhos

Not sure Leo, but maybe using phos e will remove the bounded phos? Or run those bio pellets? Heard alot of people using that to solve their nitrate or phosphate problems not sure which one it was.

MTG · May 22, 2013

took me a good 12 months of heavy phos reduction to extract the original bound phos out of my rock. since then tho every tank ive had the rock and substrate in ive never had an issue!

MTG · May 22, 2013

JimmyDang said:
Not sure Leo, but maybe using phos e will remove the bounded phos? Or run those bio pellets? Heard alot of people using that to solve their nitrate or phosphate problems not sure which one it was.

i found the easyest way to bring mine down was liquid binders every few days and just keep skimming it out, all in all took 12 months for it to stop leaching

leodb89 · May 23, 2013

which binder did you use