A few days ago I made a post about how I cannot grow Green Star Polyps at all in my LPS dominant tank. My nitrates always have shown 0 on my Red Sea kit but when Hanna recently came out with their Nitrates LR checker I bought one and now I have a number to go with my nitrates. My nitrates are sitting at 0.7 I did three back to back to back tests and they all tested there.
Here are my parameters with updated nitrates:
Temp: 79.5
Salinity: 1.025
pH: 8.5
Amonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0.7
Alkalinity: 8.7 dKh
Calcium: 320
Magnesium: 1650
I really would love to have some GSP on my back wall and on my overflows. Do you think I should start dosing nitrates and phosphates, too? I see FishOfHex has both NO3 & PO4 for dosing and have seen good results. I think I would rather keep my nitrates and phosphates at 0 with my current setup and dose them rather than start over-feeding or change my filtration setup.
Thoughts?
and thanks so much for your help
Here are my parameters with updated nitrates:
Temp: 79.5
Salinity: 1.025
pH: 8.5
Amonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0.7
Alkalinity: 8.7 dKh
Calcium: 320
Magnesium: 1650
I really would love to have some GSP on my back wall and on my overflows. Do you think I should start dosing nitrates and phosphates, too? I see FishOfHex has both NO3 & PO4 for dosing and have seen good results. I think I would rather keep my nitrates and phosphates at 0 with my current setup and dose them rather than start over-feeding or change my filtration setup.
Thoughts?
and thanks so much for your help