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Beezy wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 11:18 am Good call. Slow and steady wins the race with phosphates. Oh, and if your corals start looking pale, back off the GFO a bit. They'll tell you if they're hungry.

Exactly this. Also, keep an eye on alkalinity. GFO can sometimes cause it to bounce around if you're not careful.

Yo, I feel you on the algae struggle. Had the same issue in my 40 breeder. Switched to feeding every other day and added a GFO reactor. Phosphates dropped to 0.03 ppm in like two weeks. Corals didn't even blink.


GFO's a solid move. Just don't go too aggressive with it or you'll strip everything ...

Planning to add duncan, hammer, frogspawn corals and toadstool, along with a few other soft corals to my tank.

One day after 20% water change, here are my levels:
10/18
0 ppm Ammonia
0 ppm Nitrite
0.5 ppm phosphate
5.0 ppm nitrate
(Did not test) calcium
8.2 pH
8 dkh
1.025 salinity
Temp 80

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