awillemd1
Aquarium Advice Activist
I have posted two or three other messages regarding my system's phosphate problems. I have a 90 gallon salt water reef system that has been in existence for about 9 months. I went through a period of about a month or two where I was adding water from my RO system and the membrane was bad. My local tap water has a lot of phosphate in it. I have gone through a cycle now three times removing phosphate from my system using a phosphate sponge only to find 3 weeks later that the level has moved up from 0 to 0.03 all the way to 0.5. Apparently what has happened is that the phosphate has precipitated out and is redissolving to its equilibrium level every time I remove it.
My plan going forward is to continue my siphoning with 10% water changes twice a month, continue monitoring the phosphate levels and continue using the phosphate sponge in hopes of removing all of it.
Does anyone have any other ideas on how to proceed? I certainly don't want to remove all of my live rock and substrate and start over. Also, I wish there was a regeneratable phosphate sponge, so I didn't have to keep purchasing new material. Does anyone know of one?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.
awillemd1
My plan going forward is to continue my siphoning with 10% water changes twice a month, continue monitoring the phosphate levels and continue using the phosphate sponge in hopes of removing all of it.
Does anyone have any other ideas on how to proceed? I certainly don't want to remove all of my live rock and substrate and start over. Also, I wish there was a regeneratable phosphate sponge, so I didn't have to keep purchasing new material. Does anyone know of one?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.
awillemd1