Is the phosphate level in mysis higher than in other frozen foods. Hard to see why that would be. Phosphate contained in biological organisms is essentially the same .... if I remember my biology class correctly. It has been a long time LOL.
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If it is it would be marginal I would think, in my experience some frozen foods have dirtier water than others.Is the phosphate level in mysis higher than in other frozen foods. Hard to see why that would be. Phosphate contained in biological organisms is essentially the same .... if I remember my biology class correctly. It has been a long time LOL.
where do you buy your potassium nitrate. Does it matter what purity it is?I’m dosing potassium nitrate. I started dosing enough to raise my nitrates by 2.5ppm daily (meaning that if nothing consumed the dose then my nitrates would go up by 2.5ppm) and have varied that a bit as I’ve been trying to dial it in. Right now I’m dosing about 3ppm daily.
Originally I started dosing manually once a day, then I switched to twice a day (adding half the dose in the morning and half in the evening), then I switched to a dosing pump (adding the dose slowly over a 24 hour period)
where do you buy your potassium nitrate. Does it matter what purity it is?
That’s a good point to focus on nitrates first dnd then PO4. It’s a teeter-totter effect if you don’t.When nitrate increases, phosphate levels decrease. It's recommended to get nitrate dialed in to the level you want and then focus on phosphates. You only need a very very small amount of nitrate in the tank where as corals prefer a larger abundance of phosphate. So if you have detectable levels of nitrate, even small (.5-1), I would stop dosing nitrate and let it ride so phosphate levels can normalize.