Tank food additives that dont increase PO4?

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Is there anything else like benepets? A general coral food that does not increase nutrients to much. Reefroids was causing a huge PO4 increase in the tanks.

I have been using Live Phyto, Mysis, + Benepets with success. Any suggestions on something to add?
 

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Benepets and Fritz CoralMAX don't raise phosphate as much as reef roids.

Also look into using a cocktail of assorted Reef Nutrition feeds. Our corals love the oyster feast and ROE at the farm.
 
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Benepets and Fritz CoralMAX don't raise phosphate as much as reef roids.

Also look into using a cocktail of assorted Reef Nutrition feeds. Our corals love the oyster feast and ROE at the farm.
Agreed. Personally I have noticed that Benepets does not really raise PO4 much at all. Could just be the live phyto keeping it down though. I will look into Fritz coralmax thank you.

Is Roe fisheggs? Oyster feast is a buyable product? They dont raise PO4 much? I treat the tank with fish eggs now and than, and everything loves it.
 
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Low nutrient foods risk being low in usable nutrition.
Well it gets weird because I want nitrate adding foods, but not phosphate adding. I know it is typically the opposite. But Mysis + Benepets dont seem to add much to my PO4 compared to other foods. Would you call those low nutrient?
 

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Well it gets weird because I want nitrate adding foods, but not phosphate adding. I know it is typically the opposite. But Mysis + Benepets dont seem to add much to my PO4 compared to other foods. Would you call those low nutrient?

I do not know about them. What I do know is that people cannot easily get full nutrition from low phosphate diets when they have kidney disease, and need to use phosphate binders along with more nutritious foods.
 
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