Hi all, first time poster!
I was wondering if someone can help me solve a problem i have with my tank. As it says in the title my nitrates have dropped to zero. I have been trying to feed more and get all my other levels as spot on as i can however really struggled to get nitrates up to anything higher than 1. Recently i have had an outbreak of white spot which i am currently treating with Polyplab medic (11 days into treatment) but unfortunately have lost 3 fish to white spot and also had a jumper making that 4 fish so i am currently left with 4 fish in the tank. Can anyone suggest ways on getting my nitrate to increase?
Red sea Reefer 350
UV filter
x2 Red sea LED 90's
Red sea Skimmer
x2 eheim streamon 9500's
Fish:
x2 clown
coral beauty
leopard wrasse
Coral:
x1 BTA
x2 zoa frags
x1 goniapora frag
x1 hammer coral
x1 green start polyp
My levels:
PH 8.0-8.3 (start and end of light cycle)
Nitrate 0 (was at 1 a week ago)
Phos 0.08 (down from 0.12 a week ago)
Calc 440
Mag 1350
DKH 9.5 (slowly raising this to 11.5)
Salinity 1.025
Temp 25 C
I have been dosing Tropic Marin plus NP for about 10 days now to help bring up the nitrates but havent noticed any difference. I also gave it 3 weeks without doing a water change hoping this would raise the nitrates but had little effect. Last water change was 1 week ago. The tank has been going for about 4 months now.
I was wondering if someone can help me solve a problem i have with my tank. As it says in the title my nitrates have dropped to zero. I have been trying to feed more and get all my other levels as spot on as i can however really struggled to get nitrates up to anything higher than 1. Recently i have had an outbreak of white spot which i am currently treating with Polyplab medic (11 days into treatment) but unfortunately have lost 3 fish to white spot and also had a jumper making that 4 fish so i am currently left with 4 fish in the tank. Can anyone suggest ways on getting my nitrate to increase?
Red sea Reefer 350
UV filter
x2 Red sea LED 90's
Red sea Skimmer
x2 eheim streamon 9500's
Fish:
x2 clown
coral beauty
leopard wrasse
Coral:
x1 BTA
x2 zoa frags
x1 goniapora frag
x1 hammer coral
x1 green start polyp
My levels:
PH 8.0-8.3 (start and end of light cycle)
Nitrate 0 (was at 1 a week ago)
Phos 0.08 (down from 0.12 a week ago)
Calc 440
Mag 1350
DKH 9.5 (slowly raising this to 11.5)
Salinity 1.025
Temp 25 C
I have been dosing Tropic Marin plus NP for about 10 days now to help bring up the nitrates but havent noticed any difference. I also gave it 3 weeks without doing a water change hoping this would raise the nitrates but had little effect. Last water change was 1 week ago. The tank has been going for about 4 months now.