We don't actually know that high phosphate levels do much except likely slow down calcification a bit. Tanks with high mineralized nutrients like nitrate and phosphate often seem to have problems, but it could be due to factors correlated to nutrients, like organics in the water column. I would be cautious with dosing mineralized nutrients, but there's not much evidence of harm for a fairly wide range of dosing levels.
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