High phosphate flake food

[Ghostbuster]

I’ve been feeding “Xtreme Aquatic Foods” Marine Flake for a few months and noticed that my fish are pooping lightning bugs; just kidding. But it’s like green phosphorus light with my blue lights on. Consequently, my phosphates have been really high as well, from 0.89 ppm down to 0.57 lately.

So, I’m thinking this Xtreme brand flake food is super extreme with phosphate, and dumped out the rest in my flowerbed outside.

Anyone else having issues with Xtreme Aquatic Foods? It’s a red marine flake food

 

[Solo McReefer]

Flake

With a pic of a mandarin on label


Anyway, any food with large amounts of animal, is going to be high in phosphates. It makes up a sizable portion of cell membranes of animals

First 4 ingredients are from animals

Then wheat germ, which has much less phosphate(cell walls). But do you know any fish that naturally eat grass?

I wouldn’t suppose there's much difference in phosphate between krill meal, fish meal or even long pig meal

Carry on

 

[KrisReef]

I would have dumped the flakes in a 5 gallon bucket with fresh water and measured the P after an hour.

What are you going to do when your flowers want more flakes?

 

[slythy]

I use the krill flakes. I also have decently high phosphates lol. I use flake in 1 feeder and pellets in another. I think all food is going to be high in phosphates. Just feed less?

 

[Solo McReefer]

. I think all food is going to be high in phosphates

Maybe yes
Maybe no

Wheat germ fish and coral foods are going to higher in nitrates(proteins) than phosphates(cell walls not membranes)

But like I said, how many fish you know of that eat grass normally

Phosphates are easier and cheaper to pull out of the water than nitrates anyway. I am not endorsing wheat germ

 

[Ghostbuster]

I would have dumped the flakes in a 5 gallon bucket with fresh water and measured the P after an hour.

What are you going to do when your flowers want more flakes?

Haha, the flowers will be very sad.

I’ve been measuring PO4 very frequently over the last month and a half; will continue until it gets to about 0.10ppm. Yeah, I didn’t think of measuring it the way you mentioned though, but I’ve never seen my fish poop out radioactive looking pellets before using this food, haha