struggling with low phosphate

[ajm83]

Every day my phosphate drops back to zero. This is tested with Hanna ULR, Salifert and Elos HR.

Has anybody else dealt with the same thing? How did you sort it?

I've got a phosphate solution made up, but it just seems so wrong to be dosing it when everybody else is trying to remove it!!

 

[happyhourhero]

Can you start feeding more? I feed LRS Reef frenzy pretty heavily and have a good bit of P04. If you run GFO or the like, take it offline.

 

[ajm83]

No GFO, I feed a pinch of flake in the morning, pinch when I get home, pinch before bed. Tank is only 100L so I don't have many fish.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Every day my phosphate drops back to zero. This is tested with Hanna ULR, Salifert and Elos HR.

Has anybody else dealt with the same thing? How did you sort it?

I've got a phosphate solution made up, but it just seems so wrong to be dosing it when everybody else is trying to remove it!!

Plenty of people dose phosphate. It is cheap, easy, and readily controlled.

 

[ajm83]

Plenty of people dose phosphate. It is cheap, easy, and readily controlled.

Thanks, maybe I'll just have to bite the bullet.

 

[Nirethell]

Thanks, maybe I'll just have to bite the bullet.

I've been having the same issues, my phosphates read so low. I've been dosing it to keep up. I believe my refugium is just demolishing the phosphates so until I get an auto-feeder and i am able to feed more to supplement I have been dosing to no ill effects. And I have Lush green rapidly growing Chaeto with no extra algae