My tank has ran with escalating phosphate and near zero nitrate over the past few years. I experimented in the past dosing stump remover, which worked well putting my Nitrates where I want them (3-5ppm) and lowering phosphate - however my corals looked terrible. I was dosing large amounts and thought maybe going slower would help, but further experiments showed dosing less still made my corals worse than not dosing at all. By my calculations, Potassium should not have been a problem after water changes.
I completely gave up the idea of dosing Nitrates until this spring, when I bought a bunch of frags from one of the more successful SPS tanks in Ohio and the owner credited part of his success on Nitrate dosing. He was using Sodium Nitrate, and further reading on the forum supports that may work better than the Potassium Nitrate in stump remover.
I bought Reagent grade and dosed 1.3g into my approximately 1000 liter system for the first time today - approximately 1ppm NO3. Based on my past experience, this should do very little if anything at all. I plan to keep adding that level each day until the end of August, and up it in September if I don't notice any difference.
I've found lots of threads on this, but most talk about the math to know how to raise a certain ppm, or what product to buy - and almost all by people who aren't dosing but plan to start. I haven't found much of anything on anyone either dosing small amounts daily for the long term, large amounts for a quick one time fix, or people who tried this .
I completely gave up the idea of dosing Nitrates until this spring, when I bought a bunch of frags from one of the more successful SPS tanks in Ohio and the owner credited part of his success on Nitrate dosing. He was using Sodium Nitrate, and further reading on the forum supports that may work better than the Potassium Nitrate in stump remover.
I bought Reagent grade and dosed 1.3g into my approximately 1000 liter system for the first time today - approximately 1ppm NO3. Based on my past experience, this should do very little if anything at all. I plan to keep adding that level each day until the end of August, and up it in September if I don't notice any difference.
I've found lots of threads on this, but most talk about the math to know how to raise a certain ppm, or what product to buy - and almost all by people who aren't dosing but plan to start. I haven't found much of anything on anyone either dosing small amounts daily for the long term, large amounts for a quick one time fix, or people who tried this .