It was a 1/10 mix which give him 23.9 x 10 = 239Still no test reads 200 - specifically 239 which makes me curious about the whole thing which is why i stopped responding lol
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It was a 1/10 mix which give him 23.9 x 10 = 239Still no test reads 200 - specifically 239 which makes me curious about the whole thing which is why i stopped responding lol
Mornings readings -
Current Nitrates - 87
Phosphates - 0
Looks like something in the system has started working (perhaps sand cleaning , water changes, bio bricks or refugium)
Everything else is same - Phosphates have bottomed out so not sure how far this will go.
Eienna - Yes damage is halted. As mentioned they are in medium flow, lower light and getting amino / iron dosing to assist recovery. Target tank doesn't have much going on so its quite stable with only 2 fish . 100Gallon and stable numbers.How are the bleached corals doing? If they do recover, it'll be a slow process, but here's hoping the damage was at least halted.
A huge 80% water change was done this morning. Waiting for system to stabilize. Will pick up from here.
@islandreeflife - Agreed numbers are not making sense but all tests (including the one from LFS) are reading high and confirming the measurement. LFS was not even sure what to do with this level of nitrates and gave me NoPOX which I didn't even use.
I am hoping with this large water change things have a new start from the scratch - I already moved most of my corals to a different system which was much more stable and now just going to observe.
I know its a risk but just keeping my fingers crossed.
API is the worst test kit you could use in my opinion, you say you used Hanna, go with the Hanna, not the APIGood idea - i will do that tomorrow morning. However like i said - used API test and multiple times tested with kit and newer reagent. So i am not so sure.
Oh, ok then, keep doing what you are doing thenLe dart sorry - I used api as a backup kit but I use Hanna HR
Great job! keep us updated on the tanks health.Nitrate 14.2 no dilution required.
Nitrate 14.2 no dilution required.
Hi, I wrote that blog article you're talking about. Please don't scold other users if you haven't bothered to actually read the article they're citing.You'll notice that the link you posted does not link to any actual sources. Its something from a freshwater aquarium guide with "Corals" tacked on at the end. Its hobby nonsense.
This site will also tell you that nitrite is harmful, when nitrite LC50 for shrimp larvae is about 200ppm, and its about 500 ppm for fish.
Here's a survey study on nitrate toxicity in freshwater and marine organisms. Go through it and you'll notice that the lowest number that they observed any toxicity for nitrate in seawater is 573 ppm on Monocanthus fingerlings. On most other test, the numbers were in 3000+ ppm range.
Seriously, ignore everything you find on hobby sites. 90% of it is just regurgitated freshwater stuff and is outright wrong. If it's written by Randy - you can probably take it seriously.
Nitrate toxicity to aquatic animals: a review with new data for freshwater invertebrates Camargo, Alonso, Salamanca 2003
We call blogs nonsense because they almost always are, and yours is no different. Just wordy drivel repeating a whole bunch of unsourced jibberish.Hi, I wrote that blog article you're talking about. Please don't scold other users if you haven't bothered to actually read the article they're citing.
First off, let's start with the fact that you straight up lied about the article not citing any sources. I'm literally linking to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5441187/ and talking about the Redfield Ratio.
Also, don't call my article "regurgitated freshwater stuff" as you've no idea what you're talking about. No freshwater article will talk about the Redfield ratio in marine environments, will they?
I hate how most Reef2Reef users generalize like that and instantly throws throw any blog under the bus, and it's now becoming an echo chamber. Where, evidently, in this particular case, you're wrong.
...And if you value the longevity of your saltwater fish - please don't subject them to high nitrate for too long!
"Definitely reduce their disease resistance,"Correction: It's not immediately dangerous. Over time it would definitely reduce their disease resistance, at minimum. It won't kill them off in a few days (or possibly weeks), though.
I'm glad that you keep requesting "sources" while completely ignoring the part about study reproducibility. And also the part about osmoregulation. I mentioned the redfield ratio (modified or not) as proof that I'm not talking about freshwater, which was your (evidently) false claim.We call blogs nonsense because they almost always are, and yours is no different. Just wordy drivel repeating a whole bunch of unsourced jibberish.
It is absolutely regurgitated freshwater nonsense. And the redfield ratio is so far from relevant in reef aquaria that citing it is a heavy indicator that someone has no idea what they're talking about. Not only was Redfield's primary thesis (that plankton would uptake nutrients to match their environment) wrong - even the thing that has survived - 16:1 is wrong. The ratio is much closer to 20:1 in the open water deep ocean plankton he studied - and it varies from as much as 6:1 to 60:1 in the coastal reefs we're trying to mimic.
And not a single one of your sources support your claims about nitrite or nitrate. Hence - unsourced.
Again, evidence please.
The 12,000 gallon FOWLR tank I maintained for several years had nitrates of 200+ ppm. We had many fish that were 20+ years old.
"Definitely reduce their disease resistance,"
Do you have evidence for this claim? The numbers we're talking about are incredibly common in FOWLR and FO tanks.
The ratio is much closer to 20:1 in the open water deep ocean plankton he studied - and it varies from as much as 6:1 to 60:1 in the coastal reefs we're trying to mimic.
The numbers we're talking about are incredibly common in FOWLR and FO tanks.