Phytoplankton=Nutrients?

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I’m just not seeing where the nutrients would go unless you remove the phytoplankton.

If it is eaten, much of that N and P will get back into the system, I expect. Perhaps corals are different than fish in that regard, however.

 

[SauceyReef]

How much do you dose? For reference my tank is 30g, and what else are you running for phosphate reduction?

I have a bag of chemipure blue running in my AIO overflow and I barely feed my tank, like 1/3 a cube of mysis daily with only two fish. I just don’t know how my phosphates could have hit .2

I feed the same I have always been feeding - heavily with Mysis. I use the recommended amount for live phyto and Benepets. I run nothing for phosphate reduction. No filtration, no skimmer. Just a fuge with some macro algae in the back as I have been doing for 4 years now on this tank.

 

[SauceyReef]

I’m just not seeing where the nutrients would go unless you remove the phytoplankton.

If it is eaten, much of that N and P will get back into the system, I expect. Perhaps corals are different than fish in that regard, however.

Here is a theory. The Live Phyto collects nutrients, than gets removed from the tank during water changes?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Here is a theory. The Live Phyto collects nutrients, than gets removed from the tank during water changes?

That might be.