Low Nutriens

[Gsponi]

Hi Guys. My Reef Tank is nearly a Year old.
Im really happy with the Results. All my Euphyllias are growing great and are nicley open, but i always had Problems to keep my Po4 and NO 3 up. Since 1 Month i have 2 more Fish and build a Autofeeder for Nyos liquid Food. Abd i also Dose 5ml AF Power Elixier. But my Po and No are lower then ever i need to dose double the ammount of Nutrition P and N( not for directly lifting NO3 innow).
My Corals are healty and looks great exept of my Enzmann .

Do you guys have any Idea?.

Its a 200L Aquarium i have good flow .
I have a Tunze 9004 on the lowest lowest setting. I run UVC and Carbon . The colors are not bad but im afraid of limitation.

I have a ton of Snails.
The only diffrence is that i have more fish feed more and dose aminos. But then why my nutritions are lower?

MY latest ICP https://lab.atiaquaristik.com/share/085c7bf8c80625cf1f3b

 

[js-3Design]

Get rid of the carbon.
Activated carbon sucks nutriens out of the water. Also trace elements.

Well the bigger your corals get, the more nutriens they take out of the water.
Ive got my tank almost overstocked with fish, feed 3 times a day and still have to dose no3 and po4...

Its more common to run into low nutriens than high nutriens.

You can feed more pellets. Those are often high in po4.

And for what i can see you dont have a high bioload. Why running the skimmer at all? What happens when you turn it off?

 

[StartingATank]

Could you do an at home test for nitrates, as I cannot see it. As for how to increase phosphates, dosing and pellets increase it.

 

[Gsponi]

Could you do an at home test for nitrates, as I cannot see it. As for how to increase phosphates, dosing and pellets increase it.

Sorry its 2 maximum. Yeah dosing is clear but i was scared because even when i use all maxes out in the ATI Calculator inrun more P and N .

 

[Gsponi]

Get rid of the carbon.
Activated carbon sucks nutriens out of the water. Also trace elements.

Well the bigger your corals get, the more nutriens they take out of the water.
Ive got my tank almost overstocked with fish, feed 3 times a day and still have to dose no3 and po4...

Its more common to run into low nutriens than high nutriens.

You can feed more pellets. Those are often high in po4.

And for what i can see you dont have a high bioload. Why running the skimmer at all? What happens when you turn it off?

yeah inunderstand that the bigger the more but i was scared because even when i maxed out the information at the ATI Calculator i dose more than its says.
I will try it with the carbon.
I have 2 kardinalbarsch 2 Clowns 2 Damsel 1 Mandarin 1 bluepoint coral ... i dont know in english.
I was surprised than since ibfeed more inget lower nutritions.

 

[get-salty]

I do agree with removing the carbon.
I know for a fact that carbon removes iodine - dont ask how i know this lol
*cough cough i overdosed iodine*

but im unsure for any other elements.

 

[Gsponi]

I do agree with removing the carbon.
I know for a fact that carbon removes iodine - dont ask how i know this lol
*cough cough i overdosed iodine*

but im unsure for any other elements.

I dose Iodine The guys from ATI made test with Carbon and id didnt removed Iodine But Iodine is always removed so inneed dose it anyway.
I used Carbon since the first days .
Im confused because everything is the same only infeed more and i have 2 more fish and indose amino so why its less nutritions. But yeah its reefing i will try remove the Carbon. i dont want to shut of my skimmer