Okay so should I feed my tank more? All my fish are still babies no bigger than 4 inches my diamond is 5-6 inches I feed once a day should I feed more than?
I keep close eyes on the flame and I’ve had him for 1 month and never seen him nip coral. My phos is a trace so it’s low and I dosed calcium like I said so my calcium is now at 460 and I’m going to start feeding my tank more. I have a 180 with only 8 fish in it and 20 different types of coral I only feed once a day but I’m trying to get my peppermint shrimp to eat some aptasia that I have and my lights are one from 930am - 500pm
What’s the best way to increase nitrate?
Yup, feed a bit more daily to see if we can get those numbers up and into the described target zones.
But real slow, overall we want to be in those ranges consistently, too low the die, too high they die.
You need to be there anyways for corals in general, so at least we can rule that out.
You have big water and low load so your low nutrients is no big surprise.
You can also consider just dosing up your N&P.
Eh. 5 months is fine. My euphyllias went in my tank about a month after cycle and have been fine. By 6 months it should be safe to start sps.What’s also important is your tank is only 5 months old. I was only able to add softies up to a year.
I started adding stoneys after all 8 water parameters remained both in the ranges and for 3 continuous months.
At this point everything I drop in opens within an hour, remains open, a colors up nicely.
When adding corals, it’s best to add softies first, followed by LPS, then easy SPS (Bird nest as example) and lastly SPS.
Actually, those phosphates are too low for a mixed reef system. Established tanks should not have algae growth as they’re covered in coralline. My tank stays at .1 phosphate and 20ppm of nitrate. Lfs stays at .15 phosphate 30ppm of nitrate. Wwc stays at .15 phosphate 30-40ppm of nitrate. A .003 decimal place is way too clean. Corals need nutrients. However, when you get 30 ppm of nitrates with .25 ppm of phosphate you will start running Into problems. And I think all three of these tanks are doing just fine
The op stated her tank is only 5 months. Were did you get the Informasion on WWC peramiters? Because .03 phosphate a d 5 nitrate is not starving it's clean but not starving. I run .03 phosphate with .25 nitrate. My corals are notActually, those phosphates are too low for a mixed reef system. Established tanks should not have algae growth as they’re covered in coralline. My tank stays at .1 phosphate and 20ppm of nitrate. Lfs stays at .15 phosphate 30ppm of nitrate. Wwc stays at .15 phosphate 30-40ppm of nitrate. A .003 decimal place is way too clean. Corals need nutrients. However, when you get 30 ppm of nitrates with .25 ppm of phosphate you will start running Into problems. And I think all three of these tanks are doing just fine
The op stated her tank is only 5 months. Were did you get the Informasion on WWC peramiters? Because .03 phosphate a d 5 nitrate is not starving it's clean but not starving. I run .03 phosphate with .25 nitrate. My corals are not
Starving in my ultra low system. Every tank can run Diffrent dont get me wrong. But having a low levels of phosphate and nitrate has shown to improve coral colorations and growth.
