I have a new tank (Waterbox20) with a few zoanthid frags and a couple of snails, I make a rookie mistake and instead of dosing just a little of AB+ and increase the amount slowly while monitoring NO3 and PO4 to find the sweet spot for the bio load on the tank I ended overdosing the tank (brown film crap and green algae everywhere!)
I finally lower my nitrates and phosphates to a low nutrient levels (NO3 +-1 PO4 0.04), I'm about to try again AB+ with the intention to provide some nutrients to the zoas and avoid bottoming nitrates and phosphates.
I'm going to start with just 0.5 ml every 3rd day, but I have a couple of questions that some of you with more experience probably can help me to clear out:
I'm currently testing every Wednesday and doing water change on Thursday, how often should I test for NO3 and PO4 after starting the dosing schedule in order to chart the dosing quantity vs NO3 & PO4 levels vs zoanthid happiness and find my golden number?
How fast will I start seen numbers going up on the testing? and how fast is too fast? (not more brown crap on the rocks pleaaasssseeeee!!)
Thank you for any advice on this!!
I finally lower my nitrates and phosphates to a low nutrient levels (NO3 +-1 PO4 0.04), I'm about to try again AB+ with the intention to provide some nutrients to the zoas and avoid bottoming nitrates and phosphates.
I'm going to start with just 0.5 ml every 3rd day, but I have a couple of questions that some of you with more experience probably can help me to clear out:
I'm currently testing every Wednesday and doing water change on Thursday, how often should I test for NO3 and PO4 after starting the dosing schedule in order to chart the dosing quantity vs NO3 & PO4 levels vs zoanthid happiness and find my golden number?
How fast will I start seen numbers going up on the testing? and how fast is too fast? (not more brown crap on the rocks pleaaasssseeeee!!)
Thank you for any advice on this!!