Other than cyano getting worse vs less not really but as stated I didn't dose the BB long once I saw nitrate and phosphate at zero.Yeah, the double zeros are definitely not ideal. Aside from that, any change in the look of the tank?
EDIT: I suppose I should have said I'm too lazy to dose one thing to lower nutrients only to have to dose to raise them back upI'm not pushing a TM product, but it can make sense to boost bacteria (as food for filter feeders) using organic carbon dosing while also supplementing N and/or P so neither get too low.
Agreed it makes perfect sense but it adds 3 items to dose to accomplish it along with increased testing. That to me that is just too complicated for a benifit I may or may not see. Like TangerineSpeedo I was under the impression BB would stabilize nitrate and phosphate not cause them to be depleted. I can feed the corals with other simpler methods. I guess if I was huge into tech and had dosers etc maybe but all of my dosing is done by hand so I'll just keep feeding the fish.
I was under the impression that BB stabilized your phosphate where it was at, hence the balance part of the equation.
That's what I thought and since my nitrates and phosphates were 5.3 and 0.10 I figured it would be a good time to introduce BB. Maybe if I had used it longer and started dosing nitrate and phosphate it might have stabilized? I'm just not willing to start dosing more stuff at this time.
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