My Evo 13.5 is about 5 months old and it has 8-10 softies and mushrooms, 2 oscellaris, 1 tailspot blenny and 5 snails.
My parameters are :
Salinity : 1.025-1.026
Alk : 8
PH : 7.8
Phosphate : close to 0 or 0
Nitrate : 0
Ammonia : 0
Nitrite : 0
I can tell the corals aren’t fully happy. I’ve been told I need to raise the nitrates. At the moment, I feed 1 little piece of flake food per day, per fish (so 3 small pieces of flake).
I also dose 12 drops of phytoplankton every other day. Bottle says everyday but I read you need to start slow. I’ve been feeding it for about 2 weeks. I also added copepods at the same time but I have never seen any in the tank.
I bought mysis shrimps but haven’t fed any yet. I plan on starting tomorrow. So how do I go about raising my nitrates slowly without causing algae blooms or other problems in the tank ?
How much mysis shrimps should I feed and how often (I have the cubes) ? Anything else I should do ?
Thank you !
My parameters are :
Salinity : 1.025-1.026
Alk : 8
PH : 7.8
Phosphate : close to 0 or 0
Nitrate : 0
Ammonia : 0
Nitrite : 0
I can tell the corals aren’t fully happy. I’ve been told I need to raise the nitrates. At the moment, I feed 1 little piece of flake food per day, per fish (so 3 small pieces of flake).
I also dose 12 drops of phytoplankton every other day. Bottle says everyday but I read you need to start slow. I’ve been feeding it for about 2 weeks. I also added copepods at the same time but I have never seen any in the tank.
I bought mysis shrimps but haven’t fed any yet. I plan on starting tomorrow. So how do I go about raising my nitrates slowly without causing algae blooms or other problems in the tank ?
How much mysis shrimps should I feed and how often (I have the cubes) ? Anything else I should do ?
Thank you !