I was nervous as my phosphates went past the Hanna checker .2PPM max but my acros still looked so healthy and were growing.
After a few weeks of testing at the .2PPM max I bought a Salifert phosphate testing kit and I'm around 1 PPM now. My corals and livestock still look healthy and are growing but I don't want to put my head in the sand thinking it's fine when I know phosphates are high. I stopped pellet foot feeding and feed enough frozen food to keep nitrate at 5PPM.
I'm looking for experience from others that have/had high phosphates and at what point did they see negative impacts of it, or are their corals still thriving even with the high phosphates.
In case anyone wants to know my other paramters, since i know it's all related, I'll paste below.
Phosphate - 1
Nitrate - 5
Calcium - 380
Magnesium - 1410
Salinity - 1.025
PH - 8.0
Temp - 81
After a few weeks of testing at the .2PPM max I bought a Salifert phosphate testing kit and I'm around 1 PPM now. My corals and livestock still look healthy and are growing but I don't want to put my head in the sand thinking it's fine when I know phosphates are high. I stopped pellet foot feeding and feed enough frozen food to keep nitrate at 5PPM.
I'm looking for experience from others that have/had high phosphates and at what point did they see negative impacts of it, or are their corals still thriving even with the high phosphates.
In case anyone wants to know my other paramters, since i know it's all related, I'll paste below.
Phosphate - 1
Nitrate - 5
Calcium - 380
Magnesium - 1410
Salinity - 1.025
PH - 8.0
Temp - 81