API Phosphate test kit

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API Phosphate test results

Hoping someone out there reads this that is familure with the API Phosphate test.

Test results indicate the tank has .5 ppm (mg/L) Is that the correct measurement unit? Shouldnt it be meq / L?
If you convert phosphate ppm to meq/ L you get .005 meq/L

If my research is correct the ideal level should be around .003 ppm

Can that be right?

My tank is 31 days old I have two corals Red and Purple montipora along with some blue green chromis in the tank. I feed the fish every other day and in my opinion they would probable like more than I’m feeding them. I do not feel i am over feeding them. I’ve had a little brown looking algae growing on the glass and rock but it seems to have stopped on the rock and since I wiped it off the glass it has not reappeared.

On the larger piece (Purple montipora) around the edges I have noticed it losing color and turning white but the inner area is still the same color as the day I bought it. I have it placed at the mid point of the height of the tank.

90G
110lb (new) Live rock
60 lb sand
30G sump
no Fuge yet

temp = 80
AMM = 0
Nitrate = 7.5
phosphate .5 ppm(mg/L)
Cal and Alk are within range
I dont have a Mag test kit yet.
 
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