As the title says. Need to switch my game up.
What PO4 free flake do you have in your AFS?
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No natural food is or can be phosphate free.
Afs? Automated feed system?
Any pellet or dry food will have phosphate. I am convinced the freeze dried food in my new plank auto feeder was a major contributor in a recent phosphate spike from .05 to .98.
3x a day for a week and that was what my numbers jumped to. I’ve disconnected it while looking for better food options
Any pellet or dry food will have phosphate. I am convinced the freeze dried food in my new plank auto feeder was a major contributor in a recent phosphate spike from .05 to .98.
3x a day for a week and that was what my numbers jumped to. I’ve disconnected it while looking for better food options
Yeah, similar issue here. I had been using the same flake forever, I stupidly made a change to the brand of flake coupled with I mixed pellets in with the flake. I tossed the original container of the flake so I am not sure what I am using to be honest. I had always had my auto feeder set to 4 times with 2 spins. But with this new food source my PO4 has gone up to .5x range. All I know of my original flake is that it had a yellow tang on the container. I use to buy the biggest size possible so it would always last forever, I would buy more than one too as I hate running out of stuff and am not afraid to buy in bulk. So I have lots of this high PO4 stuff mixed with pellets if anyone wants it, lol. To check this, I have 2 displays. On one of my displays I took my feeder off line Friday and put some phosguard in. PO4 tested .16 Sunday. I put the feeder back on line and shut the reactor off. I then waited 30 minutes after a feeding and the PO4 was .41. Cray Cray.
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It’s actually far harder than it might sound. You’d end up with something like space food sticks from the sixties: wholly synthetic.
Many people have chronic kidney disease and get excessive phosphate from foods since they cannot readily pee it out.
Many docs have tried to develop suitable low P diets, and while that can certainly help, they can’t be low enough in P while still getting enough protein.
That’s actually my most useful invention: a drug these people take with foods to bind up much of the phosphate before it can be absorbed (generic names are sevelamer chloride and sevelamer carbonate).
Many people have chronic kidney disease and get excessive phosphate from foods since they cannot readily pee it out.
Many docs have tried to develop suitable low P diets, and while that can certainly help, they can’t be low enough in P while still getting enough protein.
That’s actually my most useful invention: a drug these people take with foods to bind up much of the phosphate before it can be absorbed (generic names are sevelamer chloride and sevelamer carbonate).
I do also (did) use a flake food that did not spike my numbers. Sadly it’s been out of stock a while and I’ve run out.
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Interesting. How long do you run each time, and what size tank?
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The NLS flake doesn't seem to affect my parameters either tbh. The phosphate content must be low enough that the tank uses most of it up.I do also (did) use a flake food that did not spike my numbers. Sadly it’s been out of stock a while and I’ve run out.
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Foods often list the phosphate content, but if not, perhaps avoid those with fish meal or bone meal as they may be unusually high in P.
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