To Carbon dose or not

[Ti64reef]

I suspected that may be the case. I'll step up the feeding over the next few days an monitor the phospate and nitrate. Are the coral likely to recover? It's a mixed reef.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

They usually do, if it is just fading an lack of extension, rather than tissue loss.

 

[Ti64reef]

Thanks! We'll see what happens.

 

[Aaronreef]

Can someone that has more knowledge than me give me a bit of help please?

I currently use lanthanum to control my phosphate it's stable at 0.03

My nitrate is consistently 20ppm
I'd like to try and get them to single numbers and see if I can keep them at a lower level without dosing I have a sump full of siporax and only use a skimmer

My tank is around 260 gallons and is mostly SPS frags

If I dose nopox to help bring nitrate down will that drop my phosphate to 0 as it's already low ?
Is there any other methods to lower nitrate that won't effect phosphate

Any advice would be great

 

[Ti64reef]

good question. My experience with nopox is start very slow. I dosed at the recommended level from the start and it was a disaster. It will take your phosphate to zero. I'm trying to drag it back up to .15 and it's taking weeks. .