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jda · 03/21/2017, 07:35 AM

Your tank is three months old. All of this is not only quite normal, but also quite necessary. You need to stop with all chemical additives (GFO too) and let it finish cycling - this can take six to nine months or even a year before it is effective at handling NO3 and swapping P well. You are just stalling this by using all of this stuff. There is nothing that you can do to speed this up. Eventually, you will wind up with no NO3 and just a trace of P, have lots of pods with coralline and sponges everywhere and then you are done. Just keep the big 3 stable and wait.

03/21/2017, 07:35 AM	#11
jda Dogmatic Dinosaur Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 6,256	Your tank is three months old. All of this is not only quite normal, but also quite necessary. You need to stop with all chemical additives (GFO too) and let it finish cycling - this can take six to nine months or even a year before it is effective at handling NO3 and swapping P well. You are just stalling this by using all of this stuff. There is nothing that you can do to speed this up. Eventually, you will wind up with no NO3 and just a trace of P, have lots of pods with coralline and sponges everywhere and then you are done. Just keep the big 3 stable and wait.