How much Neonitro to MAINTAIN nitrates?

[Charley75]

150 gal mixed reef
Dino outbreak due to low nutrients
I raised my nitrates up to 10 over the course of the last week by dosing 50mL Neonitro each day.
How do I determine how much to dose to keep that value without it dropping again? TIA!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Trial and error is the only way. Just pick some dose (less than 50
mL per day) and adjust it based on nitrate testing every few days.

 

[Charley75]

Should I continue daily dosing, or change to weekly. I have also been dosing microbacter 7 once a week and silicate once a week.

 

[GuppyHJD]

Should I continue daily dosing, or change to weekly. I have also been dosing microbacter 7 once a week and silicate once a week.

Until you figure out your daily dose to maintain your target reading, I would test and dose daily or maybe every other day. If you are combating dinos and dosing MB7 and silicate, I would dose that daily. You want to get a constant level of silicates (2ppm) so the diatoms grow, breed and overtake the dinos. Which dino species do you have?

 

[Charley75]

Don’t know the species. I’m using the chart posted by Miami I think….just 2.1 mL/week I think. Also just following the directions on the Microbacter bottle….I think like 25mL/week. Should I break both of those to daily?

 

[Charley75]

Bump

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Why are you dosing mb7?

I dose N and do so daily.

 

[GuppyHJD]

Don’t know the species. I’m using the chart posted by Miami I think….just 2.1 mL/week I think. Also just following the directions on the Microbacter bottle….I think like 25mL/week. Should I break both of those to daily?

Dosing silicate may not be doing anything if you have certain species of dinos that are fought with UV light.
I would recommend you look into the information on Mack's Dinoflagellates Support page on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/259474048655429

The dosing file on Mack's page show dosing Silicate at 2.0ml per day for a tank 150gallons.

You need to dose Neonitrate daily and test daily until you see your number come into range.