Bacteria to raise P04

CoralWealth · Jul 6, 2017

Hello!

I am always limited on P04 while having a big fish load.

Purple tang, Yellow tang, power blue tang, kole tang, 3 wrasse, 2 chromis, 2 clownfish, anthias and feeding a ton.

I am looking into dosing some good bacteria such as flourish phosphorus or other products.

I am looking to see what you guys use or what you recommend. I want to get my phosphates closer to 0.05-0.1

Big E · Jul 6, 2017

I scanned your tank thread................I would just feed more natural foods to the fish.

Raw shrimp, scallops, clams, PEmysis, Hikari reef plankton. Get more juices and that type of stuff going on in your tank. It may not change the test kit levels but will add a lot more for the corals........Be GENEROUS

The fish waste will be chock full of the PO4, ect that they pass through their systems.

Nori is great for the tangs........it's loaded with everything in high levels. The fish will only keep a small amount the rest will go out as waste.

Flakes are ok for when your aren't home.

CoralWealth · Jul 6, 2017

Big E said:
I scanned your tank thread................I would just feed more natural foods to the fish.

Raw shrimp, scallops, clams, PEmysis, Hikari reef plankton. Get more juices and that type of stuff going on in your tank. It may not change the test kit levels but will add a lot more for the corals........Be GENEROUS

The fish waste will be chock full of the PO4, ect that they pass through their systems.

Nori is great for the tangs........it's loaded with everything in high levels. The fish will only keep a small amount the rest will go out as waste.

Flakes are ok for when your aren't home.

Thanks. I am making it a plan to go to a local seafood market this weekend to get some of those ingredients and make my own fish mix which I think will help too. I will just continue to feed more and hope that can raise it up. Main reason I wanna raise it is to get rid of the dinos problem I am facing

clownsrcool · Jul 6, 2017

What's your nitrate leave at? Your tank sounds like mine in that I am phosphate deficient and dose for it on a daily basis. I used to have 0 PO4 and high levels of nitrate that wouldn't come down for anything until I dosed enough PO4 daily to keep my levels in the detectable range.

CoralWealth · Jul 6, 2017

clownsrcool said:
What's your nitrate leave at? Your tank sounds like mine in that I am phosphate deficient and dose for it on a daily basis. I used to have 0 PO4 and high levels of nitrate that wouldn't come down for anything until I dosed enough PO4 daily to keep my levels in the detectable range.

I havent checked since vacation last week but it was between 4-8 using red sea pro

clownsrcool · Jul 6, 2017

I had good success using either phytofeast or neophos to raise my phosphates and used prodibio biodigest in conjunction to help boost a balanced bacteria population.

CoralWealth · Jul 6, 2017

clownsrcool said:
I had good success using either phytofeast or neophos to raise my phosphates and used prodibio biodigest in conjunction to help boost a balanced bacteria population.

thank you!

DLuce510 · Jul 6, 2017

I had the same problem with NO3 and PO4. I tried every thing, no GFO no carbon, skimmer off heavy feeding. Ive been using Nitrogen flourish dosed 6mls a day for the last 2 years and my NO3 and PO4 have seemed to stay in balence. Im hesitant to use foods to raise nutrients, some foods are heavy in some elements like Lithium. I know whats in Nitrogen flourish and Phosphorus flourish but not in most foods.

CoralWealth · Jul 6, 2017

DLuce510 said:
I had the same problem with NO3 and PO4. I tried every thing, no GFO no carbon, skimmer off heavy feeding. Ive been using Nitrogen flourish dosed 6mls a day for the last 2 years and my NO3 and PO4 have seemed to stay in balence. Im hesitant to use foods to raise nutrients, some foods are heavy in some elements like Lithium. I know whats in Nitrogen flourish and Phosphorus flourish but not in most foods.

What is the difference between nitrogen flourish and phosphorus flourish?

reeferparty · Jul 6, 2017

I'm going through pretty much the same thing. However, according to the info I've gathered elevated levels of nitrates over po4 would cause green algae and vice verse would give rise to blue algae. (Redfields ratio). I could be wrong so if somebody more educated on the theory thinks otherwise, please correct me if I wrong.