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Interesting thanksI haven't, but something in it (the solvent?) can promote bacterial blooms which in turn may lower nitrate
I did an experiment again and it indeed drop to zero from 15ppm.i think the prazipro is causing a bacterial bloomPrazipro can absolutely drop your nitrates. I was doing an in tank treatment on my reef tank of the liquid prazipro. Tank was about 6 months old, but was an upgrade from a previous tank using all the old rock and coral with some new rock. I was going to do 3 doses separated by 1 week each, but I stopped after the second dose because my nitrates cratered. They didn’t hit zero but they would have if I had done the third dose. Two interesting things: first, the first dose did nothing. I guess it takes some time to ramp up. Second, it only took 1-2 weeks after I stopped dosing for the nitrates to jump exactly to where they were before. I guess the bacteria feeding on the extra stuff from the prazipro all died and released the nitrate back into the water.
This graph is a couple months of data and you can see how quickly it dropped during the dosing and then how quickly it came back.
Just wait for few days until nitrate climbs to 5ppm . Usually takes 2 weeksSo I’ve been carbon dosing to begin with and usually stay between 5-15 PPM. Noticed a sign on a wrasse that’s impossible to catch so I dosed one of my DT with prazipro and all my tests are reading 0 basically. I should probably turn off my doser pump for my NOPOX for a bit I’m assuming? Only dosing 3 ML a day.
A little late, but I’m experiencing the same thing !Prazipro can absolutely drop your nitrates. I was doing an in tank treatment on my reef tank of the liquid prazipro. Tank was about 6 months old, but was an upgrade from a previous tank using all the old rock and coral with some new rock. I was going to do 3 doses separated by 1 week each, but I stopped after the second dose because my nitrates cratered. They didn’t hit zero but they would have if I had done the third dose. Two interesting things: first, the first dose did nothing. I guess it takes some time to ramp up. Second, it only took 1-2 weeks after I stopped dosing for the nitrates to jump exactly to where they were before. I guess the bacteria feeding on the extra stuff from the prazipro all died and released the nitrate back into the water.
This graph is a few months of data and you can see how quickly it dropped during the dosing and then how quickly it came back.