can microbacter clean reduce phosphates?

[reef4life!!!]

Hi,so my system is 240 liters fish only tank and it's running for about 8 years.Those years the levels in my system was very high so 4 months ago i decided to go for corals so i started making my levels right.My nitrates was 80ppm and now it's 5 but i have big problem with phosphates. 3 weeks go i added phosguard and they reduced a little bit,they went from 1ppm almost to 0.5ppm.But due to my heavy feeding lately they came back up to 1ppm.My lfs said to me to buy the microbacter clean in order to repopulate my bacterias because these 8 years of not proper maintenance the live rock is probably filled with trash etc and it's not able for the bacterias to make their nutrition cycle.So my question is should i add the microbacter clean in order to reduce some phosphates or should i keep with phosguard???

 

[josephxsxn]

I assume they would as any living creature needs a bit of both. Would recommend you look at lanthium chloride some people here have had great success using it with phosphates.

Did I unlock all the phosphate from 100#s of live rock?

Hi, @Randy Holmes-Farley Several months ago I did a tank clean up. I pulled all the rocks one by one, soaked them in straight vinegar for at least 15-20 minutes, washed, rinsed, and put back into the reef. My question, is it possible that at 2.5ph, the vinegar has unbound phosphate from my...

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Makes sense old rock could be loaded with detritus imho.

 

[skp]

A little late but yes i found microbacter clean to reduce phosphates. I have a 65 gallon display tank and a 5 gallon fallow invert quarantine tank. I do 5 gallons water change once a week and replace the QT with water take from the DT during the water change. I dose microbacter clean into the DT only and ive dosed 6 weeks so far. My phophates in my DT remain at 0.01 and my QT remains at 0.03.