phosphate products that work.

MAny foods add a ton of Phos

HI,
Be sure your using a food that isn't making the problem worse, some foods have different phos values. I ve seen flakes have high phos content and others only decimals.
Some people wash their frozen food to remove the slush that may be loaded.
I usee a little sea chem to lower mine.
Here's some tricks that have helped me out.
1. clean you glass and the skimmers grab the trapped phos in algae.
2. be sure you have a good skimmer. some like skillter are less than ideal
3. I put a plastic shoe box in my sump with some of that good algae with a light, this will export allot of phos.
4. rinse all filter pads if used this remove food thats trapped lowering
the phos load when bacteria metabolize the filtered food.
be sure your not over feeding, this will create alot of problems not just phos.
DOug

 

Phosbuster and Bryopsis

Has anyone tried Carib-Sea Phosbuster for bryopsis? On the bottle it states about having a ph of at least 8.2. I run from 7.8 - 8.0. Anyone think it could hurt to try the product
Adam

 

The best phosphate remover in my opinion is the phospate reactor using the phos ban media I think it does a fantastic job it has really made a difference in my system. I am using the reccomended amount of Phos-Ban and I filled up the rest of the reactor with Carbon as per Reefsparkys advice and it is working out really well so far so thanks Reefsparky and try the Two Little fishes Phosphate Reactor it is not that expensive at all around $40 I think plus the media and it is pretty small in size I would highly reccomend

 

I was wondering where my phosphates could be coming from- then after reading above I realized I was using a lot of frozen foods and was unaware that it was a good idea to rinse it first. Over several months, could this be enough to bring phosphates up to 1.0?

I have been using "RODI" water, from a commerical vending device. But before I buy it I do take a sample, typically, the water tests at 4-6 PPM with my TDS meter.
Does a TDS meter 'read' phosphates? (I assume they would be a disolved solid)

 

I just read that crushed coral also releases Phosphates- I got a big old coral skeleton sitting in the tank... could THAT be the culprit?
thnx