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Can nitrates bottoming out cause this? Is it common for acros to show signs of stress a week or so after the nitrates bottoming out?
I’ve seen started dosing nitrates to 2.5-5ppm. Phosphates are now showing zero with a salifert test kit. I’m not for sure where they’ve been as I realized I had the wrong reagent for my test kit.
- Tank is 200g
- Alk is 8.5-8.6 -controlled by apex and trident
- Calcium- 450
- Mag- 1410
- Salinity- 1.026
- Tank is 9 months old, seeded with established liverock
- Lighting is 2 hydra 62s running about 60% and 4 T5s. Par values were about 250-350 on sps
Can nitrates bottoming out cause this? Is it common for acros to show signs of stress a week or so after the nitrates bottoming out?
I’ve seen started dosing nitrates to 2.5-5ppm. Phosphates are now showing zero with a salifert test kit. I’m not for sure where they’ve been as I realized I had the wrong reagent for my test kit.