Phos uptake

[scotty333]

Hi guys
Is it documented about how much po4 corals use?
I had a power cut and even recalibrating my doser I ended up at 7.15 from 9.5 and my phosphates doubled in this period of 10 days or so

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I'm not sure how you would want to quantify it, but corals, like all organisms, use phosphate to make tissue, and some phosphate can get incorporated into coral skeletons, probably mostly by accident as opposed to an intended purpose. It also gets bound to calcium carbonate surfaces, and incorporated into abiotic precipitation of calcium carbonate.

 

[scotty333]

I'm not sure how you would want to quantify it, but corals, like all organisms, use phosphate to make tissue, and some phosphate can get incorporated into coral skeletons, probably mostly by accident as opposed to an intended purpose. It also gets bound to calcium carbonate surfaces, and incorporated into abiotic precipitation of calcium carbonate.

Thanks boss