will i have to be dosing phosphorus indefinitely?

[salt creap]

i dont have a huge bioload , my nitrates are around 25ppm i feel like im feeding like crazy and am having to dose 3-4ml of neophos daily and am looking for light at the end of the tunnel..

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

is there new dry rock in the tank?

 

[salt creap]

sry i missed this, thanks for replying, my rock is almost two years old, i recently had a bleaching event 6 months ago, i had metal leaching into tank, finally have a mixed reef thriving again, but have never had to dose neophos, i usually have more fish than (two damsel, two clowns, 20hermit, 5turbos, in 90 gallons, 50lbs rock
with the amount of feeding i had done my nitrates were getting into the 30s so i backed down and started neo

 

[homer1475]

If you have corals, reef roids is known to be loaded with phosphates. Just feed your coral that slurry once or twice a week and watch your phosphates rise without neophos.

 

[salt creap]

If you have corals, reef roids is known to be loaded with phosphates. Just feed your coral that slurry once or twice a week and watch your phosphates rise without neophos.

i do have reefroids i haven’t been using(i also hav an aptasia problem and waiting for my berghias to take off