Works for me. Better than battling Dinos and Cyano in my experience, or putting so much food in that your fish don't eat it all and waiting for it to rot into nutrients. I've always battled low nutrients until I started dosing NO3/PO4 since I run bare bottom and don't get all the benefits of a sand NO3/PO4 factory.My nitrates run low and are often around 1ppm, but I’d prefer to be in the 5-10 range. I will periodically dose my tank with a sodium nitrate solution to raise it when it’s getting close to 0. I saw where one reputable user on the forum said that dosing nitrate does not provide nitrate in a easily usable form for corals.
Is there a difference between nitrate from fish waste and nitrates that were directly dosed when it comes to coral metabolism?