Dissapearing Nitrates

[kgalarr0]

Hello to all,

I have a 2 month old 10 gal tank with soft corals and a small clownfish. I had some algae that I was allowing to grow and it started dying off. I tested and nitrates slowly went from 10ppm to 0pmm in less than I week. I believe that now dinos are showing up (thats why I preferred to have nitrates and algae).

My question is how in the world did my nitrates 0 out so fast with my algae dying in the process?

Now im overfeeding pellets to see if nutrients pick up quick.

 

[Dan_P]

Hello to all,

I have a 2 month old 10 gal tank with soft corals and a small clownfish. I had some algae that I was allowing to grow and it started dying off. I tested and nitrates slowly went from 10ppm to 0pmm in less than I week. I believe that now dinos are showing up (thats why I preferred to have nitrates and algae).

My question is how in the world did my nitrates 0 out so fast with my algae dying in the process?

Now im overfeeding pellets to see if nutrients pick up quick.

Micro algae are effective at depleting nitrates. Maybe the coral starting using nitrate.