Hey guys,
this stuff is stressing me out and things are not happy or dying. Going back to October 9th, tested (Hanna) NO3 and PO 4 and both read 0. Sps looking sad and some started dying. Brought brightwell neonitro and neophos to bring levels up. Dosed neonitro (75ml) to achieve 5ppm and neophos (22ml) to achieve .03ppm. Tested both after 24 hours and got 3.8ppm for NO3 and 0ppm for PO4. From reading the directions, I thought my tank is carbon limited so I dosed brigh reef biofuel. This time I dosed 70ml of neophos and in 24 hours got a reading of .07ppm In October 14th (Yay)! Things started looking a little better. Retested PO4 on October 23 when things started too fade again and got a reading of .04. i was thinking maybe my PO4 levels were maybe a little low so this time I was shooting for .1ppm so I dosed another 55ml of neophos. After 24 hours (October 25th) I tested PO4 and instead of going up got 0 reading! So tonight I dosed reef biofuel and 55ml of neophos. But in the meantime my nitrate WENT UP from 10.5ppm on October 20th to 12.1ppm on October 25th. I’m at a total lost guys.
my parameters…
alk 8 (was at 7.1 and bringing it back up to 8.5)
cal 440
mag 1350
Phosphate 0
nitrate 12.1
this stuff is stressing me out and things are not happy or dying. Going back to October 9th, tested (Hanna) NO3 and PO 4 and both read 0. Sps looking sad and some started dying. Brought brightwell neonitro and neophos to bring levels up. Dosed neonitro (75ml) to achieve 5ppm and neophos (22ml) to achieve .03ppm. Tested both after 24 hours and got 3.8ppm for NO3 and 0ppm for PO4. From reading the directions, I thought my tank is carbon limited so I dosed brigh reef biofuel. This time I dosed 70ml of neophos and in 24 hours got a reading of .07ppm In October 14th (Yay)! Things started looking a little better. Retested PO4 on October 23 when things started too fade again and got a reading of .04. i was thinking maybe my PO4 levels were maybe a little low so this time I was shooting for .1ppm so I dosed another 55ml of neophos. After 24 hours (October 25th) I tested PO4 and instead of going up got 0 reading! So tonight I dosed reef biofuel and 55ml of neophos. But in the meantime my nitrate WENT UP from 10.5ppm on October 20th to 12.1ppm on October 25th. I’m at a total lost guys.
my parameters…
alk 8 (was at 7.1 and bringing it back up to 8.5)
cal 440
mag 1350
Phosphate 0
nitrate 12.1