I'm looking for information on how to chemically increase nitrates. Please share your information and experiences here. I'm looking into dosing stump remover. What are the dosing instructions?
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Pete, why not just feed your fish more ??? Fish poop seems to be a more natural form/source of Coral food, my Blochii Tang is a 'Fertilizing Machine' let me tell you.... almost Oscar like... lol
Cheers, Todd
You could always add a little calcium nitrate. I got mine from a feed and seed store.
Pete, why not just feed your fish more ??? Fish poop seems to be a more natural form/source of Coral food, my Blochii Tang is a 'Fertilizing Machine' let me tell you.... almost Oscar like... lol
Cheers, Todd
Feeding more is one way to increasing NO3, true. But the problem w/ that is it also increases PO4. We usually want to lower it.
This is one reason I want to increase nitrate. It will help decrease phosphate.
I'm looking for information on how to chemically increase nitrates. Please share your information and experiences here. I'm looking into dosing stump remover. What are the dosing instructions?
I occasionally use stump remover or KNO3. There aren't a lot of concrete instructions out there. A few are on the other forum but even that is questionable. What I do is to dose small amounts each time, then measure NO3 the next day (or a few hours later) and so on, very similar to how we start dosing Alk or Ca. I use something similar to a salifert spoon (I think it's 1mL). When I am at NO3 of 0, I dose up to 6 of those spoons at one time. (I have a 29G.) This can raise it to maybe 1 or 2ppm. Hope this helps.
No carbon dosing here. I actually have my skimmer offline and still 0 nitrate. The reason I'm leaning towards potassium nitrate instead of calcium nitrate is because I already have to dose a little bit of potassium already. I'm feeding about ten times the amount that I would prefer (over an ounce of rods per week)
Skimmer is off and your still not getting any nitrates? And no dosing. What are you actually using for nitrate removal? Its got to go somewhere.