I’m dosing 15ml of neonitro in my 240 once a day for a week and my nitrates are still undetectable. I’ve been fighting the same
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Nitrogen containing compounds can feed zooxanthella, which can make them proliferate, resulting in a darker coral.I have noticed that every time I dose sodium nitrate or any product containing nitrate, I have an increase in nitrite values and this is negative, the sps do not strip and tend to darken. I believe the increase in nitrites is due to the second phase of the nitrogen cycle, that of the reduction of nitrates into gaseous nitrogen, with the intermediate transformation into nitrites. Wouldn't it then be suitable to dose organic nitrogen or ammonium so that these are then oxidized into no2 and no3 by bacteria? Maybe dosing carbon to help them. If the reasoning were right, what would be a source of ammonium and organic nitrogen to dose?
Nitrogen containing compounds can feed zooxanthella, which can make them proliferate, resulting in a darker coral.
How do you know the nitrate isn‘t directly causing darkening as opposed to nitrites?
Because it never exceeded 2ppm despite dosing it, still low value. Also I noticed sps that didn't spolipano or started tissue recession, symptoms not connected to the dosage of no3 in those doses. Nitrites are poisonous, they must be undetectable.Nitrogen containing compounds can feed zooxanthella, which can make them proliferate, resulting in a darker coral.
How do you know the nitrate isn‘t directly causing darkening as opposed to nitrites?
I’m dosing 15ml of neonitro in my 240 once a day for a week and my nitrates are still undetectable. I’ve been fighting the same
I was just thinking this.. what should I be dosing? I want to do it safelyDose more.
The calculation on how much to dose is on the bottle. I dose 40-50ml to my 120 to raise to 5ppm.I was just thinking this.. what should I be dosing? I want to do it safely
I was just thinking this.. what should I be dosing? I want to do it safely