What is your phosphate management routine?

[BlueAbyss]

I've never been able to get a phosphate reading, even when I had a patch or two of cyano, when I went through my Bryopsis phase, etc. But my tank does go through an awful lot of calcium, more than I think should be needed for my coralline algae and single open brain coral I feed only drained mysis so the phosphate input is probably not too high, but I suspect it's being bound by the calcium before anybody else gets to it.

[Aquattro]

I've never tried to get a reading, it's not something I've ever been too concerned with. I assume using my zeovit reactor has an effect, as I have no algae at all. I stopped using the reactor for a while, and grew a few different types of algae, from cyano to wafer. Within weeks of using the reactor, the algae is almost gone. Good enough for me.

[lastlight]

I've tried to get my wife to leave blinds shut as well and she really dislikes that. I was at first concerned all the light hitting my empty tank may give rise to a harsh reflection here and there or maybe even a hazardous shine but I survived that phase in-tact.

With the tank running now I intend to shut them whenever she's not paying attention.

[Delphinus]

So it does sort of sort of sound like the consensus here is that even if there were phosphates in the water column, rarely are the test kits able to pick up on it. The difference being either by interference maybe that whole organic vs inorganic phosphate question, who knows.

FWIW I let the sun hit my tank as often as possible (really only possible in the winter though, the rays come in at the wrong angle from a few weeks outside of the equinoxes). The clams in particular, love that!