Myself and many others have been having an exact opposite experience. Could it possibly be something else you have been feeding? Certain foods are crazy high in PO4 - I learned that the hard way.
Of course but I test phosphate fairly often and always after dosing benepets once a week I see a noticeable spike. I don't use anything else like roids or other supplements. Just tried benepets for several months. I do dose phytoplankton plankton daily and only feed frozen. I have an oversized skimmer and a thriving fuge for export.
Are you using it to replace all or just a portion of your other food? Can you provide some more details about your method and system? We can likely help provide a solution for your scenario to achieve the results others are seeing.
I have 65g tank and 15g sump. It is heavily stocked with corals and fish. It is an SPS dominant mixed reef. The tank is 3.5 years old and thriving. I feed heavy frozen twice a day and rely on my oversized skimmer and fuge for primary export. I have always had elevated phosphate .2 to .4 typically controlled with phosguard or lanthium. I've tried a number of supplements always looking for that one that elevates growth and color. I find they all end up raising my phosphate. I tried yours for several months dosing once a week per mixing directions. Got the same noticeable phosphate spike. Right now I'm just relying on fish poop as my supplement. My tank is usually 15 to 20 nitrates and .2 to .4 phosphate. I would like to maintain a 100:1 ratio nitrates to phosphate but I'm usually to high with phosphate. No algae issues. Not in any type of distress but if a supplement benefited my corals and helped lower my phosphate that would be a bonus. Just did not happen for me with your product.
So without benepets or any other food supps you stay around .2-.4 ? What does it spike to when you use Benepets?
Generally if I keep up on my chaeto and water change every few weeks I can stay in .2 to .3 range. Less if I'm dosing lanthium. When using benepets I got into the .5 range. For like the past 2 weeks with just a bag of phosguard been in the .3 range. I should add that I dry skim and have a lot of rock scape so I'm guessing the rock leaching plays a key role why my phosphate remains elevated.
I don’t mind at all I love talking about nutrients. It’s a black hole of knowledge and I think one of the most important params to a healthy reef.
And to stay on track for me adding benepets in the mix hasn’t changed anything!
Agree with all of this
Well that's good. My tank is fine with elevated phosphate but we are always looking for those little tweaks to get even better color and stronger growth.
Same here. My phos at one point got to 1.5 and my tank was looking good. Still I would like to be able to control and lower it without using a bunch of bottled stuff.
I dose phytofeast everyday small amount
Is that just phtyoplankton
I noticed it dropping my PO4 the first 6 months, but I test 2x a week on average and it seems even with the same dosing past 6 months my PO4 is becoming more stable. Even with constant checking it is sometimes hard to pinpoint what causes a spike or drop.
Could you please link to this thread?
Yep! Here ya go. I personally thought this thread was amazing / super helpful. Taught me more about nutrients than my 15 years in the hobby.
www.reef2reef.com
Thank you my friend. I have a lot to learnYep! Here ya go. I personally thought this thread was amazing / super helpful. Taught me more about nutrients than my 15 years in the hobby.
Nitrae/Phosphate Ratio - Super high Phosphate, and bottoming out Nitrate.
Recently my Nitrates have been going lower and lower, while my Phosphates just increase. I am not really sure what would be causing this. I would love to learn more about how Phosphates and Nitrates are inversely related. Ive been feeding Rods Food + Mysis daily. I made a few other posts...
Concentrated phytoplankton from Reef Nutrition
