Where To Purchase Phosphate To Dose

Tony's Reef · Jul 1, 2019

Long story short. Phosphates are at 0 thanks to overuse of GFO and I need to raise them. Where to purchase phosphate and which brand is best?

Crabs McJones · Jul 1, 2019

@HotRocks and I used this during our 76 day fallow period for our corals
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/neophos-balanced-phosphorus-supplement-brightwell-aquatics.html
However if you turn off the phosphate reactor I'm sure the levels will come back up on their own

Bouncingsoul39 · Jul 1, 2019

If you don't want the brightwell, Seachem makes a good one that is concentrated making it a good value. It's called Sea Chem Flourish Phosphorus.
https://www.amazon.com/Seachem-001111-Flourish-Phosphorus-500ml/dp/B0002APIJQ

Or alternatively, you could feed your fish dry flake food or pellets daily and raise it that way.

PatW · Jul 2, 2019

I dose trisodium phosphate. I buy an analytical grade reagent off of Amazon. I put 2 tablespoons of the crystals into 1 gallon of RODI. I dose about 1 tbs to 100 gallons. Be careful and test. It is easy to overshoot with phosphate.

Silver14SS · Jul 2, 2019

I've been pleased with Loudwolf's products. I have a 50ish gallon setup so I don't need to buy in large quantities and the 99%+ purity alleviates concerns I have about unintended consequences.

PatW · Jul 2, 2019

In that case, you might want to buy Neophos by Brightwell Aquatics for a phosphate additive. You can get it from Bulk Reef Supply.

BeejReef · Jul 2, 2019

Bouncingsoul39 said:
If you don't want the brightwell, Seachem makes a good one that is concentrated making it a good value. It's called Sea Chem Flourish Phosphorus.
https://www.amazon.com/Seachem-001111-Flourish-Phosphorus-500ml/dp/B0002APIJQ

Or alternatively, you could feed your fish dry flake food or pellets daily and raise it that way.

That's why I've bottomed out on P? A switch to all-frozen? ty