So keeping nutrients at the right ratio also helps out combating unwanted algae and also would help sps with coloration and growth especially a tank with large colonies
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I'm having a nitrate limiting issue. Phosphates spiked at .1 came down to .06 and now at .03.
My Sps are bleaching some and losing color.
Should I dose NO4 in some way?
Nitrates at 0 currently with redsea test kit
So keeping nutrients at the right ratio also helps out combating unwanted algae and also would help sps with coloration and growth especially a tank with large colonies
I'm having a nitrate limiting issue. Phosphates spiked at .1 came down to .06 and now at .03.
My Sps are bleaching some and losing color.
Should I dose NO4 in some way?
Nitrates at 0 currently with redsea test kit
Do you use a phosphate export method that requires both? Some do not (GFO and other binders, for example).
I use a skimmer carbon and fuge with a ball of cheato the size of a baseball. The cheato is turning white in places too.
I've turned off my skimmer for a couple days to try and get the nitrates up some. I set the carbon reactor so the flow is as slow as possible without being off.
I use a skimmer carbon and fuge with a ball of cheato the size of a baseball. The cheato is turning white in places too.
I've turned off my skimmer for a couple days to try and get the nitrates up some. I set the carbon reactor so the flow is as slow as possible without being off.
So I already determined that my tank consumes .25 nitrates per day
But phosphates a different story
So the first time I dosed 1.75 ml and I got a reading of 1 phosphorous so I added 5.25ml and it went up to 5 phosphorous by the evening it went back down to 0 so then I added 5.25 again and last night i tested 51 phosphorous and by this morning it was back down to 8 phosphorous which is .02 phosphates so something is consuming phosphates at an extremely fast rate
Those 51, 8, etc. numbers are what? ppb phosphorus?
Consuming 0.02 ppm phosphate daily is not high, IMO. You likely add more than that in foods every day and it too gets consumed. You are just boosting the daily phosphate added to the water by a fraction. How big a fraction depends on how much you feed, but maybe 10-50% increase. I discuss phosphate additions via foods here:
Phosphate And Math: Yes You Need To Understand Both
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/3/chemistry
.14 phosphates consumption is a lot Randy.
And what basis do you have for thinking that is high as opposed to normal for a first phosphate boost?
Higher phospathe will increase lots of processes that do not happen at lower levels, including biologic uptake (by organisms that may be phosphate limited before dosing) and binding to calcium carbonate surfaces.
I do not agree with that statement. I do not believe the ratio is the key, just the levels.
So I already determined that my tank consumes .25 nitrates per day
But phosphates a different story