Soooo... I have a 100g (48x36x14) tank that has a bunch of fish in it (like 10 wrasses including, a tang, cbb, and a genicanthus angel) with a 40g sump, refugium is 25g. Gets fed 5-10x a day depending when I'm available. No skimmer or socks. I rely on refugium with powerful grow lights and dosing trace elements to compensate for no WC. Problem was I have 0 PO4 and 0 NO3. Then I got an opportunity to move my dream animal, the Japanese Dragon Eel, from QT. I thought it was the perfect opportunity since the eel would raise up my nutrients.
First 3 weeks having the eel and lowered feeding frequency to 2x a day, NO3 was 1 ppm and PO4 was 0.08 ppm. Perfect. The week after that, 30 ppm NO3 and 3 ppm PO4. Oops.
Chaeto stopped growing for some reason, which lead to the rise of nutrients. I dose Fe and I to help it grow faster. No acros died surprisingly.
I still have NO3PO4X leftover from a previous tank I took down recently. But the problem is, I don't have a skimmer. Just a refugium, ozone, and a UV sterilizer.
Is it possible to use NO3PO4X without a skimmer? I heard mixed reviews about this.
I plan to do a big WC soon to lower N and P levels, but I don't have an RODI unit so it's gonna be a while for me to get water. May have to adjust stock list as well, but all of the fish are a pain in the a to catch.
First 3 weeks having the eel and lowered feeding frequency to 2x a day, NO3 was 1 ppm and PO4 was 0.08 ppm. Perfect. The week after that, 30 ppm NO3 and 3 ppm PO4. Oops.
Chaeto stopped growing for some reason, which lead to the rise of nutrients. I dose Fe and I to help it grow faster. No acros died surprisingly.
I still have NO3PO4X leftover from a previous tank I took down recently. But the problem is, I don't have a skimmer. Just a refugium, ozone, and a UV sterilizer.
Is it possible to use NO3PO4X without a skimmer? I heard mixed reviews about this.
I plan to do a big WC soon to lower N and P levels, but I don't have an RODI unit so it's gonna be a while for me to get water. May have to adjust stock list as well, but all of the fish are a pain in the a to catch.