Nitrate and phosphates bottom out

[Weevo]

Always had nitrates between 3-5 and phosphates at 0.03 and a week ago they tested at 0 on hanna and salient. 80 gallon with 8 fish. Sps, lps all look great but just a little pale . Goni's are doing good too

 

[Spare time]

I would definitely get them back up before you get dinos.

 

[Weevo]

Already have but what could have caused it

 

[Spare time]

Asumming nothing changed in your routine, maybe your tank is having a growth in coral or whatever that may be taking it up

 

[AJsReef]

Nothing changed with your system? Feeding less? Dosing differently?

 

[Miller535]

I would definitely get them back up before you get dinos.

I had this happen. Had a long dino battle and had to start dosing Neonitro and Neophos for a little while.

 

[TX_Punisher]

Uptake happened. Your corals starting growing and uptaking more. Happens in my tank every few months. More of a reason to test regularly and adjust dosing/feeding to keep nutrients measurable.

 

[Weevo]

Uptake happened. Your corals starting growing and uptaking more. Happens in my tank every few months. More of a reason to test regularly and adjust dosing/feeding to keep nutrients measurable.

That is what I figured. Tank has been running just under 2 years and have been constantly testing then 1 week tested nothing.

 

[Weevo]

Nothing changed with your system? Feeding less? Dosing differently?

Nothing changed. Feeding heavy. Using a doser

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

oops, wrong thread. lol

 

[Nicholas Dushynsky]

I would definitely get them back up before you get dinos.

Yeah I agree, or get cyano then dino like I did. I have had to dose nitrates and phosphates to get them back up.

 

[KyleC]

Hijacking an old thread, sorry.

I've just recently started getting dinos and cyano. I tested my parameters and my nitrate and phosphate has bottomed out! If I start feeding more, will it help?

Alk is approx 8.6 dkh.
pH 8.3
Salinity 1.025
Temp 25.5°C

• Aquaone aquareef 300 litres
• Frogspawn, torch, leather coral, some zoas, ricordea, gsp, brown star polyps, red plate monti, leptoseris, 3 types of mushrooms, 2 types of toadstools, BTA's
• 2 clownfish
• Sand sifting star
• Royal gramma and banggai cardinal (added 1 week ago)
• 5 hermits, cleaner shrimp, 1x nassarius and 3x mexcian turbo snails, bristleworms, brittlestars
• Berghia Nudibranchs and Aiptasia

I use a skimmer and change filter socks in sump every ~5 days. Light (white and blue) is on approx 12 hrs/day.

I feed a mix of pellets, frozen brine shrimp/daphnia/mysis 3 times per day.

 

[Salty_Northerner]

It might help, but if like many good luck with that.

 

[KyleC]

It might help, but if like many good luck with that.

But if like many? Sorry I don't follow.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

How do you know you have dinos?

If you do, feeding more will likely help with them, but may make the cyano worse.

 

[KyleC]

How do you know you have dinos?

If you do, feeding more will likely help with them, but may make the cyano worse.

I suspect dinos... here's a picture. Gloopy brown stringy substance... less in morning and more towards evening.

 

[KyleC]

I can see cyano starting too. Around 4 weeks ago I treated the tank and got rid, but obviously the underlying cause was not resolved. The pinkish slime beneath my mushroom. Also, is the dark purple above coralline algae?