Will this raise my phosphates

[Yates273]

My tank currently sits at 0 phosphates using the Hanna ULR. I guess I panicked a little, ran out and bought Seachem Flourish to dose and hopefully raise phosphates. I did my first dose and now I realize after more research that Seachem has several different types of Flourish. I am using the regular Flourish. Will this work to raise phosphates? TYIA

 

[glb]

My tank currently sits at 0 phosphates using the Hanna ULR. I guess I panicked a little, ran out and bought Seachem Flourish to dose and hopefully raise phosphates. I did my first dose and now I realize after more research that Seachem has several different types of Flourish. I am using the regular Flourish. Will this work to raise phosphates? TYIA

How are your corals doing?

 

[ScottB]

My tank currently sits at 0 phosphates using the Hanna ULR. I guess I panicked a little, ran out and bought Seachem Flourish to dose and hopefully raise phosphates. I did my first dose and now I realize after more research that Seachem has several different types of Flourish. I am using the regular Flourish. Will this work to raise phosphates? TYIA

Sorry but I don't think so. Ingredient listed .07% of phosphate. It happens.

This one instead:

Seachem - Flourish Phosphorus

www.seachem.com

 

[Yates273]

Ugh. I thought so. Well it was only 7.00
Will dosing live phyto be a good alternative? Corals happy but I don’t want 0 phosphates

 

[ScottB]

Ugh. I thought so. Well it was only 7.00
Will dosing live phyto be a good alternative? Corals happy but I don’t want 0 phosphates

I like live phyto but I would not count on that to raise PO4. Dosing some ReefRoids will add phosphates.

 

[Yates273]

I have plenty of reef Roids. I’m looking for more of a control that’s specifies what I need to dose. Guess I’ll pick up the phosphorous flourish

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I recommend dosing food grade sodium phosphate to boost phosphate levels. Amazon sells many brands.

 

[Yates273]

Do you happen to have the formula for calculating how much I need to dose a 120 with a 30 gallon sump to maintain a .03 reading?

 

[Lavey29]

Brightwell neophos

 

[Uncle99]

I used Brightwell Neophos.
Very scalable.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Do you happen to have the formula for calculating how much I need to dose a 120 with a 30 gallon sump to maintain a .03 reading?

I recommend folks use this calculator:

James' Planted Tank - Dosing Calculator

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Brightwell neophos

FWIW, I prefer products with known purity grades.

The Brightwell product is also quite expensive relative to food grade sodium phosphate.

 

[Tony the Fish]

Mono or DiBasic.?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Mono or DiBasic.?

Mono, di or trisodium phosphate are all fine if adequately pure.

 

[jda]

Using the calculator will only raise the water levels which will be temporary until your sand/rock/media or anything aragonite or calcite bind it out of the water column. Most think that their inhabitants used it all up overnight, but this is not likely even close to accurate.