High Nitrates causing tissue recession?

[FlameangelLover]

Would you mind looking at the light i have on my tank? I have two of these lights 140 watts on my 60 gallon long AIO dimensions 48 x18x16 inches.

Yea it looks like the light is growing out your coral really nicely.
Would you mind sharing what settings you have your light on? Mine is currently manually set to these settings for daylight.

I have the same light!

 

[CHSUB]

I set it up awhile ago and don’t ever touch it. I don’t like its software and functionality. But here is when I press the button. I think I run the SPS program that is built in..

 

[Rodolfo Garcia]

Would you mind looking at the light i have on my tank? I have two of these lights 140 watts on my 60 gallon long AIO dimensions 48 x18x16 inches.

Yea it looks like the light is growing out your coral really nicely.
Would you mind sharing what settings you have your light on? Mine is currently manually set to these settings for daylight.

I have the same light!

My nitrates were consistently reading 0 so I started dosing neonitrate. Im not sure if that was a good idea.

Would you mind sharing what percentages you have your lights set to?

 

[FlameangelLover]

Would you mind looking at the light i have on my tank? I have two of these lights 140 watts on my 60 gallon long AIO dimensions 48 x18x16 inches.

Yea it looks like the light is growing out your coral really nicely.
Would you mind sharing what settings you have your light on? Mine is currently manually set to these settings for daylight.

I have the same light!

My nitrates were consistently reading 0 so I started dosing neonitrate. Im not sure if that was a good idea.

Would you mind sharing what percentages you have your lights set to?

lol I was going to start dosing that today and I also have a lobo. You’re kinda making me not want to . And I’ll send it in the messages when I get off

 

[X-37B]

Parameters look good.
For years I kept no3<5 and po4<.1.
I run no3 now @ 10-20 and po4 up to .2 before I adjust.
There is no reason to lower no3 unless you just want to run lower levels.
I see no difference in my systems
running current levels vs many years at lower levels.

Can you post some pics?

 

[Rodolfo Garcia]

I set it up awhile ago and don’t ever touch it. I don’t like its software and functionality. But here is when I press the button. I think I run the SPS program that is built in..

You have your light set to self determine. Are you able to look up the percentages?

 

[CHSUB]

You have your light set to self determine. Are you able to look up the percentages?

How do you do that? I will look at the directions if I can find them.

 

[CHSUB]

Think this:

 

[tymo92]

Your experience seems to mirror issues I’ve been having as well. I was dosing neonitro and neophos as test kit (and ICP) read 0. Weeks later I started to get tissue recession across species and nitrate/phos have been well above 0. Had these issues for months and my only guess is bacterial.

I can’t imagine the absolute nutrient levels are causing these issues but *maybe* dosing nitrates caused bacterial imbalance that led to pathogenic bacteria growth?

With multiple ICPs flagging no parameter issues I don’t know what else to think.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Your experience seems to mirror issues I’ve been having as well. I was dosing neonitro and neophos as test kit (and ICP) read 0. Weeks later I started to get tissue recession across species and nitrate/phos have been well above 0. Had these issues for months and my only guess is bacterial.

I can’t imagine the absolute nutrient levels are causing these issues but *maybe* dosing nitrates caused bacterial imbalance that led to pathogenic bacteria growth?

With multiple ICPs flagging no parameter issues I don’t know what else to think.

What type of icp?

I don’t think it is likely that the dosing caused the tissue recession, unless perhaps some trace element got used up, stressing corals.

 

[tymo92]

What type of icp?

I don’t think it is likely that the dosing caused the tissue recession, unless perhaps some trace element got used up, stressing corals.

2 separate tests from ATI and Reef Labs, both ICP-OES

 

[Garf]

No, simple as that (IMO). Many great tanks have nitrate much higher than 21 ppm.

Due to Stuff happening my tank nitrates have reached 100. I am not proud of this. I also have noticed no negative effects. Particularly surprising is my rock urchin which by all accounts should be on deaths door/expired. Spikey is doing great.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Richard Ross also had nitrate around 100 ppm in his fabulous tank.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

2 separate tests from ATI and Reef Labs, both ICP-OES

That type of icp probably says fine when none of many needed trace elements are detected, and so it cannot verify whether any have gone too low.

 

[Dom]

Im working on getting them down. I figured that these NO3 levels are much higher than ocean values but then again many fantastic tanks with such higher values of NO3. Would you mind looking at my parameters, I updated the post with them. Any recommendations?

In my view, a Nitrate level of 21 is nothing that requires intervention. If I were to intervene, it wouldn't be more than a water change.

 

[Reginald Reefer III]

In my view, a Nitrate level of 21 is nothing that requires intervention. If I were to intervene, it wouldn't be more than a water change.

More harm than good messing with 21ppm NO3. 50% WC gets you down to ~11ppm NO3, but also removes all the other beneficials, trace, aminos, pods, etc. If you aren't dead on with alk and cal you will also swing those rapidly causing more stress.

Less is more is my motto.