Thank again Rob, I have tested ro water and salt mix, no phosphates,and i do a 100lt water change out of 400 every week anyway, would reef trace and reef plus add phosphates?I am not feeding muchSounds like you've had something die or your RO system's malfunctioned somehow. If you never had an issue and all of a sudden you have, you need to figure out why. Try some water changes to dilute them before you throw a bunch of media or chemicals at your tank. I have one tank that never has a phosphate issue and all I do is a weekly 25l water change, the rest of my systems run GFO.
I have been treating for Aipatasia, blue vet and the red sea one, i am using Aqua forrest salt now, but i tested the salt, I can not get lobster eggs for my dragnets so i am now using red planktonNeither of those 2 would cause a phosphate or nitrate spike that I know of. Something has changed, we need to figure out what. Are all fish, inverts and corals accounted for? Have you changed salt/brand? Are you using NSW? Is that a new batch? New supplier? A new food?
thanks, hope that is it, i change my socks every second day anyWayMy bet will be on the moving of rock stirring up a bunch of detritus causing a phosphate spike. I'd just keep up the water changes and mechanical filtration (if you are running any, if so I bet your filter socks are clogging up like mad) and it should come back to normal soon enough
Yeah I wash the food, i was killing that many a day, and didn't get them out, i now have a copper band butterfly and no AiptasiaDo a good gravel vacuum and see what happens. I can't see the AiptasiaX causing an issue unless you're killing 20-30 a day and not getting them out of the tank. Make sure you rinse the food in RO water, it's packaged onboard a ship, needless to say, they don't use RO water.