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Thank you.
Although im eager to see how well this works, i will be patience.
I have read the whole thread and i have paid careful attention to all the details. So far, i have turned skimmer and gfo off line. I increased the feeding some and will cut back on WC some. Not sure yet but i think that just with those subtle changes NO3 is starting to register after testing with Salifert test kit. Its too early to say for sure. Once i start dosing No3, i will test every day. Twice if needed.
I will try to provide before/after photos, if the results are good.
Thank you!
EDIT- I dosed 20ml twice. Haha.I dosed potassium nitrate twice. 10ml each time. The first time it went up to 3 then went to zero. The second time it went up to five and stayed there. I to took my skimmer and reactor of line. I had a bit of a cyano outbreak took care of that and all is well now with the skimmer and reactor running. And yes my sps have more color. I'm now working on trace elements. Best part of this hobby is, I see no end to trying to figure stuff out our make it better!
Oh and my tank is a 150gl
One more question:
Fish poop introduces Nitrates into the water? Somebody wrote in an earlier post that coral food also introduces NH3 without P04? If so, which brand?
I have been following thus thread and have had to dose nitrates initially to get a NO3 reading, which is now stable at 2ppm without additional dosing. I'm curious; what can happen if PO4 is too low? Mine is stable at 0.03ppm and I am running a gfo reactor. I was thinking of changing the gfo this weekend but I don't want to disturb the balance I've found between NO3 and PO4.I haven't read through this thread fully, but in case no one else has chimed in about this... You all need to be very careful with dosing nitrogen sources and driving PO4 too low. PO4 being too low will result in things far worse than some pale corals.