phosphates

[jtuco]

3 weeks ago my phosphate was 0 tested today at .5 i started feeding frozen once a day about then was doing it every 3 days could this be the cause ro water test 0 phos. will cutting frozen food back to every 3 or 4 days lower phos or will i need to do something else? Please advise Thank you

[Aquarist007]

3 weeks ago my phosphate was 0 tested today at .5 i started feeding frozen once a day about then was doing it every 3 days could this be the cause ro water test 0 phos. will cutting frozen food back to every 3 or 4 days lower phos or will i need to do something else? Please advise Thank you

Try rinsing your frozen food through a small brine shrimp net. This will remove alot of phosphates and nitrates from the frozen food that is absorbed from the holding tanks before mysis etc are frozen.
Try this for a week or two and then measure your phosphates.

[pentrix2]

how do you rinse them? do you put them under a kitchen sink and rinse it that way?

sorry, just curious because I feed frozen food but haven't rinse mine because I wasn't sure of the proper way of rinsing them.

Pen