Is .057 phosphate high?

Nerdist Aquarist · Jul 18, 2021

BanjoBandito said:
Absolutely. Reef roids are phosphate bombs.

I second that. At a certain period my phosphate was too low and I would use reef roids as a method to increase it.

ReefRusty · Jul 18, 2021

Agreed me feeding reef roids every 3rd day helped keeping my phosphate levels in check and not bombing out at 0

Feeding 2-3 times a day pellets and every 2nd day is frozen mysis mixture once a day plus pellets. Then on 3rd day reef roids and pellets for fish.. my phosphate levels remain between 0.02 and 0.04.

However if I feed reef roids once a week i can get levels at 0.001 that's 1pbb on my phosphorus checker.

Redandluvenit · Jul 18, 2021

BanjoBandito said:
Absolutely. Reef roids are phosphate bombs.

Only about 2 times a week but I stopped it when the phosphate went crazy

BanjoBandito · Jul 18, 2021

Dose phyto not reef roids. Every time I’d dose reef roids it always caused some sort of algae or Dino problem!!!!

BanjoBandito · Jul 18, 2021

I’m almost 100% convinced dinos/out of control algae are from amino acid/reef roid type food/trace element dosing.

Redandluvenit · Jul 18, 2021

BanjoBandito said:
I’m almost 100% convinced dinos/out of control algae are from amino acid/reef roid type food/trace element dosing.

I'm new to this with corals and such. Had saltwater fish before. Never had this problem

Redandluvenit · Jul 18, 2021

BanjoBandito said:
I’m almost 100% convinced dinos/out of control algae are from amino acid/reef roid type food/trace element dosing.

Btw. How do you get rid of cyana algae

anthonygf · Jul 18, 2021

BanjoBandito said:
Dose phyto not reef roids. Every time I’d dose reef roids it always caused some sort of algae or Dino problem!!!!

Dosing phyto lowers no4 and po4 naturally. I was doing it for several months now, just run out of live phyto so now I have to use my not so live phyto and zooplankton every other day. Also Oyster Feast by Ocean Nutrition is good stuff, small fish go crazy over it.

anthonygf · Jul 18, 2021

anthonygf said:
Dosing phyto lowers no4 and po4 naturally. I was doing it for several months now, just run out of live phyto so now I have to use my not so live phyto and zooplankton every other day. Also Oyster Feast by Ocean Nutrition is good stuff, small fish go crazy over it.

Forgot to mention I was dosing live phyto daily, was up to 30-40ml for my 75 gallon.

BanjoBandito · Jul 19, 2021

Redandluvenit said:
Btw. How do you get rid of cyana algae

If you have cyano you'd best try and siphon as much of it out, as it's got nutrients locked up in it - namely more phosphates and nitrates. Cyano does some really weird and toxic chemical conversions and it can blanket and kill about anything (it somehow creates ammonia...I forget how, my book shelf is more than a hand reach away!). Usually it's caused by low flow, out of control nutrients (ahem...), poor lighting, etc. Most tanks get it at some point early on (the ugly phase), but the best prevention is good maintenance. Here's some reading on it:

How To Get Rid of Cyanobacteria In Reef Tank – Reef Craze

reefcraze.com

There's also oooooodles of posts on here about people battling cyano. If you want to go nuclear you'd use a product like chemiclean. Good luck!

Redandluvenit · Jul 19, 2021

anthonygf said:
Forgot to mention I was dosing live phyto daily, was up to 30-40ml for my 75 gallon.

It's going down but very slowly. Now it's at .32

Biokabe · Jul 19, 2021

Redandluvenit said:
It's going down but very slowly. Now it's at .32

If you want to lower phosphates quickly, lanthanum chloride will do the trick.

Be VERY careful when using it though, it does have some serious caveats in some cases. It's generally not a "measure it and dump it" kind of product.

Spare time · Jul 19, 2021

BanjoBandito said:
I’m almost 100% convinced dinos/out of control algae are from amino acid/reef roid type food/trace element dosing.

Dinos are found to become an issue when you have ultra low phosphate (0.00 ish). Trace elements have nothing to do with algae issues. Amino accids are pretty much nitrogen sources and usually algae is not nitrate limited in most reef tanks.

BanjoBandito · Jul 19, 2021

Spare time said:
Dinos are found to become an issue when you have ultra low phosphate (0.00 ish). Trace elements have nothing to do with algae issues. Amino accids are pretty much nitrogen sources and usually algae is not nitrate limited in most reef tanks.

Not trying to make this a dino thread. I also stand by the theory that "rookie reefers" go bananas with coral foods and dosing and it creates issues. No hate.

Spare time · Jul 20, 2021

BanjoBandito said:
Not trying to make this a dino thread. I also stand by the theory that "rookie reefers" go bananas with coral foods and dosing and it creates issues. No hate.

PS I like your profile pic