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I'm happy to announce that the latest issue of Reefs Magazine is now live! Articles from Sanjay Joshi, Richard Ross and Chris Jury, Francis Yupangco, Justin Credabel Grabel Dana Riddle, Richard Aspinall, and Matthew Gregory Stansbery.

Sanjay discusses his tragic Acro wipeout, Rich and Chris delve deep into PO4 with some eye-opening material and a ton of other can't miss stuff.
Enjoy,
Randy

http://www.reefs.com/magazine/
 
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I don't know what to think about that phosphate article. All I know is that if a relatively new SPS reef has high po4 it's STN city, but there are so many beautiful ESTABLISHED SPS tanks running higher po4 levels around .1, if not more. There is something that we are missing about how an aged tank utilizes forms of phosphate. I don't know?. In the mean time I'll keep po4 low in my new reef :)
 
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jackson6745 said:
I don't know what to think about that phosphate article. All I know is that if a relatively new SPS reef has high po4 it's STN city, but there are so many beautiful ESTABLISHED SPS tanks running higher po4 levels around .1, if not more. There is something that we are missing about how an aged tank utilizes forms of phosphate. I don't know?. In the mean time I'll keep po4 low in my new reef :)
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Yes Rich exactly. Thank you for reading carefully. The article suggests that the PO4 situation in our systems is far more complex than we fully understand and proposes some possible mechanisms that might be at play. In no way do they recommend that people do anything other than what is working for them.
If we can get a nice, SERIOUS discussion going here, I'm sure I can get both Rich and Chris to chime in.
 
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You know I take my po4 serious Randy :D

I didn't mean to imply that the article suggested keeping high PO4. My comment kind of came out that way :) It's confusing to me.... The whole hobby:) With SPS I am trying to create heathy colors and growth (like we all are), which keeps me in constant limbo between the available nutrients to the coral and lighting intensity and duration. So many variables to consider.
I've always admired the deep rich colors of reefs with higher nutrient levels but when I would get high po4 reading (using hanna low range po4 colorimeter) it would correlate with browning and STN, also increased algae growth on the glass. Perhaps at this point I should have increased lighting or photoperiod? My gut reaction was to always to lower po4 instead with water change and GFO.
Excluding Atlantis Aquarium's Reef, which is a whole other animal :) , I am curious to know the type of lighting and the photoperiod of some of these featured reefs. While I have seen many higher nutrient reefs with great colors, a common characteristic was always bright lighting and long photoperiods. I'm curious if the SPS reefs in the article also have very bright lighting and possibly long photoperiods. Randy, your reef comes to mind blasting them with Radion Pros :)
 
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I wipe it a couple times a week. It isn't that bad. No idea what color it is!
 
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