Anyone have any info on how to raise and maintain acceptable nitrate ranges?

[SteelRain]

I’ve been having a heck of a time keeping my nitrates up. They are currently undetectable and have been for some time. My phosphates are a .1 and are kept in check with a media reactor running GFO. I dose neonitro, biofuel, and microbater7 but I cannot raise the nitrates. I am feeding an obscene amount as well; frozen food for the fish and coral ab+ and reef roids for the corals. I am currently running no filtration besides some filter floss.

This is a 25g lagoon tank; I have five fish currently.

 

[Lasse]

Sodium nitrate recipe

Apologies for doing this as I’m sure it’s somewhere I just can’t find it. I’m looking for the recipe for sodium nitrate. I’ve trawled the forum but I can’t find it. Either I’m blind or it’s vanished into the abyss of threads. Can people push me in the right direction of what is a sensible mix...

www.reef2reef.com

But I would stop the dosing of biofuel and microbater7 first and see was happens

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Dosing food grade sodium nitrate is cheap and easy. Dosing ammonia or amino acids will also likely boost nitrate,but takes more balancing and monitoring.