zero nitrate

Hello fellow reefers, my tank has been up and running for about a year & a half and I have been battling Algae and 0.0 readings for Nitrate & Phosphate. I do weekly water changes of 10g, I have a 55g breeder. In my tank I have 2 clownfish, 2 blue chromas, six-line wrasse, coral beauty, pink...

The third nutrient is my theoretical thinking on nutrients and understanding of aquarium stability and balance. The third nutrient or Carbon is a nutrient that not often talked about and little is known of its function and effects to the other Nutrients in reef aquaria, not much is know to...

Afternoon all, My tank is 3 years old and up until recently I have always had high nutrient issues, which I've thrown the kitchen sink at with no lasting success until recently. I apparently hit the magic recipe or my tank finally reached stability and my tank was looking really. For the first...

So up until a few weeks ago I was battling high phosphate levels 1-2ppm, nitrates never rose above 10ppm, usually were at 5ppm. In an effort to lower PO3 I reduced feeding to once a day, that helped a little, got down to .5ppm. After a few weeks of that I decided to dose some Fritzyme 9 and...

Hello all! I have a fluval 13.5 and ive been following the complete Red Sea recipe which ive attached below, im giving 4.6 mls of coral AB+ mixed with a bit of reef roids (usual target feed but sometimes spread throughout the tank) and 1.1 mls of nopox, plus running the coral life 2.0 skimmer...

Okay so my tank has been running for almost 4 months now when I test for nitrates there’s zero and when I test phosphates it ranges from 0 to 0.03 it depends on the day. And I have a decent amount of algae not the worst so I’m not sure if that’s eating up all the nutrients. I’m not running...

I have a 40 breeder with a good quality skimmer and a carbon reactor. I don’t use any nutrient lowering methods besides water changes. I have a pretty decent size bioload as well. For whatever reason tho even though I can’t get a decent nitrate or phosphate reading. There is hardly any algae as...

System: 50g frag tank (3 months old) trigger 30 sump refugium (doesn't yet grow chaeto) (Somatic 60 skimmer on standby) 4 fish, planning on adding a few more I haven't installed the skimmer yet because I'm still at 0 nitrate & phosphate. I'm trying to get it to at least 10ppm/.05ppm...