Question about Spectracide Stump Remover dosing

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Still going. Coloring is still getting darker and more vivid on my SPS. I'm still consuming about 1ppm per day. Thursday I took my macro algae down to about 1/3 of what I had. Not going to take back anymore on that. I've also started to increase the nitrates from 2ppm towards 3ppm. I'm wanting to see how my tank responds.

 

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Interested to know how others on this thread have done. I know there were a few people trying this out as well

 

[bneufelder]

I'm doing abiut the same and seeing great results. My frag tank was definitely starved of nutrients. Looks a bit dirtier now but the color is 3x better than when you started.

 

[Mattrg02]

After a few weeks of dosing nitrates, I found that my frozen mysis feedings have sustained nitrates in the 5-10ppm range, on an API test.

A few pale corals turned brown. That's about the extent of it. Hanna phosphate test shows 0.00, but film algea proves I have some phosphate.

My guess is that my kessil 360we isn't good enough...I'm going to take the kessil intensity higher (approach 90%) before deciding it's the light.

 

[veselym]

My red coral has responded the best, as well as an ORA Borealis...my tank is still young so I want to give it several months, In only dose to get a trace amount

I have noticed some cyano starting in the sump so I might hold off a while

 

[tcoyle]

Just got my Red Sea Pro N03 kit so I can measure down to .25. Dosed 50 ml today and got my No3 up to 1ppm. Hopefully this helps my Acros. Been having an issue with losing some due to an Alk swing and no nitrates and phosphates.

 

[carloriv]

I just dose 200 ml to my system and since then my nitrates are about 2.5 ppm stable,my sps are returning the colors and the lps are more puffy ,and some significant change is the glass are more clean it seems that my tank nitrates and phosphates are some sort of balance,before that i have to clean my glass two time a day when both of them were 0.

 

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After a few weeks of dosing nitrates, I found that my frozen mysis feedings have sustained nitrates in the 5-10ppm range, on an API test.

A few pale corals turned brown. That's about the extent of it. Hanna phosphate test shows 0.00, but film algea proves I have some phosphate.

My guess is that my kessil 360we isn't good enough...I'm going to take the kessil intensity higher (approach 90%) before deciding it's the light.

Maybe try keeping your nitrates between 2-5ppm. 5 from everything I've been reading seems to be the high end.

 

[tcoyle]

So my question with dosing NO3 is this. Is this something that I will have to continue dosing to keep my levels up or will it eventually build up and maintain its self? Right now I have to add about 50ml per day to register about 1ppm of NO3.

 

[Pete polyp]

So my question with dosing NO3 is this. Is this something that I will have to continue dosing to keep my levels up or will it eventually build up and maintain its self? Right now I have to add about 50ml per day to register about 1ppm of NO3.

If you don't skim, are overstocked and over feed with no nitrate then it's something you will have to continue. I had 13 fish and fed my tank 8x daily and I still had no nitrate without skimming. It's also a 40 gallon.

 

[bneufelder]

You have to figure out how your exporting nitrate and adjust it accordingly. I had too much cheato and too long of a photo period for my refugium.

 

[bneufelder]

I also believe that running a skimmer that is 2x as big as you need can cause this problem.

 

[Pete polyp]

You have to figure out how your exporting nitrate and adjust it accordingly. I had too much cheato and too long of a photo period for my refugium.

The only form of nutrient export I had was live rock. I tried cheato and the entire ball died in 3 months.

 

[veselym]

Not sure if this is related or others are seeing this issue...I have white stringy sponge growing all over my zoanthid frags all of a sudden and pineapple sponge

could this be related to the dosing?

 

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Not sure if this is related or others are seeing this issue...I have white stringy sponge growing all over my zoanthid frags all of a sudden and pineapple sponge

could this be related to the dosing?

I don't see this on my end. Not sure if that helps. I do have a variety of sponges in my tank as well including pineapple and I have not seen in increase in population at all

 

[veselym]

alright thanks...hope it doesn't become a problem, one frag is covered and I am worried it will out compete my rasta's

I would have to keep this stuff on a dosing pump, my tank consumes it too fast...maybe I need to get rid of my chaeto

 

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Cut back on your chaeto. Don't rid it entirely. I've ended up with a 3rd of what I started with and I think I am coming to a point to where I am finding a balance. Not 100 on this just yet but I've noticed the consumption going down a bit. I'll post updates when I know for sure.

 

[Pete polyp]

alright thanks...hope it doesn't become a problem, one frag is covered and I am worried it will out compete my rasta's

I would have to keep this stuff on a dosing pump, my tank consumes it too fast...maybe I need to get rid of my chaeto

Are you using a skimmer?

 

[smh254]

I was dosing flourish nitrogen for 2 weeks and got my po3 up to 5. I stop dosing and my nitrate stayed the same for 2 weeks. I did a 15% water change and it drop my nitrates down to 3 so I dosed more flourish. Nitrates are back up to 5. Now I just need to figure out how to get my phosphates up a little bit.

 

[veselym]

Are you using a skimmer?

Yes I have a reef octopus NWB110