I hear this all the time from so many people in the industry/hobby. If you have low nutrients just feed more!
I have a waterbox 180, so display is 135g. its been up for nearly 2 years. I have struggled with low nutrients the whole life of the tank. I have almost zero algae, i had that battle and in the heat of it was told it was binding all my nutrients. Well that was a lie or oversimplification cause nothing really changed in the nutrients as that battle was won. I didnt change my feeding.
How much is too much food?
I have 10 fish, 5 larger rest smaller fish. i dont have a ton of coral but theres 5-6 euphylia type, montis, 11 different sps varieties still in frag size but doing well, couple mushrooms and 3 varieties of zoas.
I feed my tank 3x a day with a generous amount of pellets on auto feeder and frozen once a day along with aminos at night mixed with oyster feast and odd time ill throw in some reefroids.
on top of all that i add about .03-.05 ppm phosphate every day and i can maintain around 0.07-0.09.
My nitrates will bottom out if i dont supplemnet with dosing nitrate. I dose 3-5ppm nitrate, depending on my test results, every day.
I understand the whole concept of nitrate and phosphate being the "end product" and corals really preferring the precursor versions of p and n. But i mean i cant measure those so i have no idea if there is ever enough and if I have zero DETECTABLE nitrate and phosphate that is kind of telling me that there may very well NOT be enough of the precursors if nothing is coming out the end.
I honestly want to get away from dosing phos and nitrate. I want to just feed the tank.
So how much is too much?
You, feed more guys, if this were your scenario how much more would you add?
I have a waterbox 180, so display is 135g. its been up for nearly 2 years. I have struggled with low nutrients the whole life of the tank. I have almost zero algae, i had that battle and in the heat of it was told it was binding all my nutrients. Well that was a lie or oversimplification cause nothing really changed in the nutrients as that battle was won. I didnt change my feeding.
How much is too much food?
I have 10 fish, 5 larger rest smaller fish. i dont have a ton of coral but theres 5-6 euphylia type, montis, 11 different sps varieties still in frag size but doing well, couple mushrooms and 3 varieties of zoas.
I feed my tank 3x a day with a generous amount of pellets on auto feeder and frozen once a day along with aminos at night mixed with oyster feast and odd time ill throw in some reefroids.
on top of all that i add about .03-.05 ppm phosphate every day and i can maintain around 0.07-0.09.
My nitrates will bottom out if i dont supplemnet with dosing nitrate. I dose 3-5ppm nitrate, depending on my test results, every day.
I understand the whole concept of nitrate and phosphate being the "end product" and corals really preferring the precursor versions of p and n. But i mean i cant measure those so i have no idea if there is ever enough and if I have zero DETECTABLE nitrate and phosphate that is kind of telling me that there may very well NOT be enough of the precursors if nothing is coming out the end.
I honestly want to get away from dosing phos and nitrate. I want to just feed the tank.
So how much is too much?
You, feed more guys, if this were your scenario how much more would you add?