So as of now the tank is consuming .25 NO3 and .16 PO4 per day [emoji15][emoji15][emoji15]
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Is there a limit to the amount you want to move your nitrate up in a day? This is my 3rd day dosing 300 gallon system I have dosed 150ml per day to try and move it up but haven't seen it move at all? Any suggestions
API at the moment, I have a Red Sea (not pro) but it registers nitrate every test including fresh salt water so I am skeptical of its value.
Sounds great to me, let us now how it turns outI just did a tank swap and I have some nice size colonies and a lot of acros well the tank has been going through some sort of brown algae and acro have been going pale and stning.
I've been testing nitrates with Red Sea and getting 0 and phosphorous with Hana ULR and getting 0 and for 2 weeks nothing's has changed so I came across this site after talking to two experience reefers Cruz Arias and @glennf and they recommended to dose nitrates and phosphates.
http://buddendo.home.xs4all.nl/aquarium/redfield_eng.htm#inhoud
So last night I started dosing both and got reading of both to show up and this morning phosphates are back to 0 but nitrates remain the same so I'm going to continue to dose phoshates and nitrates to keep a Reading of
.75 nitrates and .07 phosphates which will give me a ratio of 16 to see if I can beat the acros paling and stning and hopefully combat this brown crap.
Any inputs??
Is there a limit to the amount you want to move your nitrate up in a day? This is my 3rd day dosing 300 gallon system I have dosed 150ml per day to try and move it up but haven't seen it move at all? Any suggestions
Here's a recipe:
Dissolve 10 grams in 1 liter of fresh water. That 10 grams contains 6.14 grams of nitrate, so that solution is 6,140 ppm nitrate.
If you add 1 ml of the solution per 2 gallons of tank water volume, that will boost nitrate by 0.8 ppm nitrate.
Are you sure your tank can consume .16 phosphate daily, and that phosphates are not binding to something, only to be slowly released back into the water column later?
Also do you have pics of this "brown algae"? In my experience the only thing that consumes phosphates that quickly is dynoflagelates.
Ya it is not sensitive enough but I am aiming for 5 so I believe it should be good enough for that.