Agreed, there are lots of videos coming out in the last 6 months to a year going into detail on the ratios and what they do in the tank, but your answer to feed more frozen food seems to be what the thought leaders are settled on.How are your corals?
What is your phosphate level?
If corals are happy, and phosphate is very low also, I would not fix what is not broken.
The risk is when nitrates are low and phosphates are high. Cyano outbreaks are common.
Opinion: Feeding more high quality frozen food is best.
Yikes.SPS are not happy at all - STN and RTN for a couple of weeks now. Phosphate is undetectable as well.
I ran PhosBan for a couple of weeks to get rid of algae - and that worked.
My system has always had high nitrates - in the 20s - what reduced them? I don’t do water changes either
Oh I meant that with a liquid like PhosphateE, a measured quantity can remove a specific ppm of phosphates.I dose Brightwell NeoNitro when my nitrate is too low and phosphate 0.1 ppm or higher, which is my most common imbalance scenario. Easy, safe, you don’t need a doser you can just dose manually since small spikes in nitrate level don’t cause issues as far as I know. My goal is nitrate 1-5 ppm and phosphate 0.02-0.10 ppm.
Most things in this hobby are nondeterministic, not sure why that is the deal breaker for GFO for you
As far as I know, Phosphat-E is just lanthanum chloride. This is a pretty advanced (read: lots can go wrong) approach to lowering phosphates, and a large discussion unto itself. The Brightwell directions for that product are not good, and lots of horror stories online of people following them and killing stuff. Also, their claims of a specific effect with a specific dose are oversimplified.Oh I meant that with a liquid like PhosphateE, a measured quantity can remove a specific ppm of phosphates.
From what I’ve heard about GFO, it’s more of a trial and error to get the quantity correct, where if too much is used, we risk bottoming out the phosphates.
Yeah I read a few horror stores when I was researching phosphateE.As far as I know, Phosphat-E is just lanthanum chloride. This is a pretty advanced (read: lots can go wrong) approach to lowering phosphates, and a large discussion unto itself. The Brightwell directions for that product are not good, and lots of horror stories online of people following them and killing stuff. Also, their claims of a specific effect with a specific dose are oversimplified.