How to Feed Corals Phosphate WITHOUT Raising Tank Levels! | Tropic Marin PhosFeed | Reefapalooza NY 2026
In this episode, we sit down with Brian from Tropic Marin to break down a major misconception about reef tank chemistry: the difference between water column phosphate and particulate phosphate. If you are struggling with low phosphate reef tank issues, or using GFO to drive numbers down while your corals look starved, the solution isn't just raising your liquid parameters—it's changing how you feed. In this video, we dive into Tropic Marin PhosFeed, a dedicated particulate coral food designed specifically for coral polyps to physically grab and digest. Brian explains how this powder supplement provides essential nutrition directly to SPS and LPS corals without spiking the phosphate levels in your aquarium water, plus the exact dosing instructions using RO water for both broadcast and target feeding.
Phosphate is one of the nutrients with high consumption and often low availability in the reef aquarium as well as in the unpolluted natural coral reef. Phosphate is essential in numerous growth processes of the skeleton and tissue of the coral.In the...