How to heavy feed?

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Hi, just wanted to ask how would i go about heavy feeding without overfeeding? I was dosing nitrate and phos but ran into algae. Now I'm just feeding frozen but wanted to know how I could keep nutrients up without overfeeding and running into more algae issues? Thanks!

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Dosing nitrate and phos daily with coral amino

Fed 1-2 frozen mysis cube everyother day

Had my skimmer offline and didn't do water changes for a long time. (Since then have added an oversized skimmer cones co3)

Keeping n03 and phos at 10 and .05

Now I feed 1 cube daily
 
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You can't overfeed while also not overfeeding. Sort of one or the other. I'd say just continue dosing nitrates/phosphates, that's the end game of overfeeding anyway.

Some coral foods (reef roids maybe?) are known to spike phosphates, you could look into adding that in place of dosing phosphates.

Another option that would probably interest you more would be to drastically reduce your water changes, assuming you do them on any kind of a regular basis. Without knowing anything about your system (how big, how much live stock, what your nitrate/phosphate numbers are and where you want them to be, how often and how much your water changes are, are you running a skimmer and/or a mechanical filter etc etc etc), I'll throw out the suggestion that you cut your water changes in half, either half as much water or half as often and keep close eye on your numbers.
My system is about 50g with not very much live stock. I was changing about a gallon a day and couldn't keep my nitrates up. Now I just change a half a gallon once a week or so, if that, and my numbers are starting to come back up.
 

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I am confused as the question sorta contradicts its own goals.


You raised nitrate and phosphate by dosing and got algae issues, so now you want to do the same thing with food but not get algae issues.


What is your exact goal?
 

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Export as much if not more than youre adding with feeding...

Also, feed less, more often so the livestock csn eat all of the food without any left over waste.
 
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I am confused as the question sorta contradicts its own goals.


You raised nitrate and phosphate by dosing and got algae issues, so now you want to do the same thing with food but not get algae issues.


What is your exact goal?
Goal is just to keep nutrients up :)
 
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Export as much if not more than youre adding with feeding...

Also, feed less, more often so the livestock csn eat all of the food without any left over waste.
Thing is I can't feed often and would only be able to feed at 1 time
 

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I have but I have a feminus that is eating frozen and haven't tested pellet on but I don't think it'll eat pellets
There's an app for that
 
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What do you currently use to export them?


And to clarify, was the issue with dosing that you dosed too much?
Tldr I did alot of things at once, instead of slowly doing it...
Coral amino- everyday
Dosing N and P- everyday
No nutrient export

Now I have an oversized skimmer that's running 24/7 as the only export till I get AWC running soon. Going slow with this

I just want to dose or feed enough to keep N and P up for the corals whilst having the fish be plump
 

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