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Yonkers28

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My phosphates are at 0.5 with api test kits. Ive tried evrything. Water changes less feed cheato chempure elite. What can i do.
All my corals stopped growing
 

KathyC

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Chemi-Pure Elite does help in phosphate removal and is designed to be used in the media bag it comes in.
While running a reactor will get you better results it is difficult at best to run a reactor on a biocube as you have no sump to place the reactor in.
 

duke62

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you also hae to figure out where your po4 is coming from.if you dont rinse out your food you can be introducing po4 that way.also how do you get your water for water changes.if you use a ro/di how old is the membrane and filters.also if api says its 0.5 you know its alot highe then that
 
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Yonkers28

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I use Ro/di water. I make my own with reef crystal. I also started to test my water when u make it.
My filter is only about 8 months old
All my parameters are at 0
I'm only having problems with phosphate.
 

LatinP

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With 8 month old filters it's pretty much guaranteed that your source is dirty water. I'd get new filters and do a big water change or a series of smaller water changes every few days to get rid of some of that dirty water. Run GFO and carbon and you should get your parameters back under control.
 

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