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My 100 Gallon tank has been Nitrate starved for months now. 0 on the test kits. Phosphates are running from .04 to .08.
And I have lots of Dinoflagellates. Everywhere. For a long time. Tried to manually remove for months by brush, etc. I finally got around to trying to figure this out and I have been doing a lot of reading (dangerous, I am sure). I have learned that my Nitrate/Phosphate cycle is completely screwed up and I decided to use the Brightwell balance approach (for now) to see if I could start to get myself out of this mess.
So, I dosed (exactly what it said on the bottle) 40 ml of Neonitro into my tank to see if I could kickstart the micorbes into doing their thing. Also put in a capful of Microbacter7. Based on the reading that should have brought me up to 4 PPM for Nitrates. Not even close. Did a reading this morning and got .1 PPM (at least we are going in the correct direction). I thought I would be carbon-limited if anything. Not this. Was my tank so starved that they just vanished? Phosphates did go down about .01 (but that could be a reading error). All other parameters did not move at all (maybe alk, ca, orp went up a small amount).
Should I dose another 40 ml. Well actually I already did. Anybody heard of this. Also, I did test the product in a separate test sample and the Nitrate is in the product.
Thanks
And I have lots of Dinoflagellates. Everywhere. For a long time. Tried to manually remove for months by brush, etc. I finally got around to trying to figure this out and I have been doing a lot of reading (dangerous, I am sure). I have learned that my Nitrate/Phosphate cycle is completely screwed up and I decided to use the Brightwell balance approach (for now) to see if I could start to get myself out of this mess.
So, I dosed (exactly what it said on the bottle) 40 ml of Neonitro into my tank to see if I could kickstart the micorbes into doing their thing. Also put in a capful of Microbacter7. Based on the reading that should have brought me up to 4 PPM for Nitrates. Not even close. Did a reading this morning and got .1 PPM (at least we are going in the correct direction). I thought I would be carbon-limited if anything. Not this. Was my tank so starved that they just vanished? Phosphates did go down about .01 (but that could be a reading error). All other parameters did not move at all (maybe alk, ca, orp went up a small amount).
Should I dose another 40 ml. Well actually I already did. Anybody heard of this. Also, I did test the product in a separate test sample and the Nitrate is in the product.
Thanks