What is wrong with my zoas?

[Mikey0909]

also id say your Nitrate is low mike. My nitrate is at 10 right now and my zoas (biggest utter chaos) are open about an inch

What is a good way of raising it?

 

[ZoWhat]

Everywhere online I have heard that being as close to zero as possible is ideal.

If you have a tank full of Acros....

SPS = clean water of around 2ppm NO3 and nearly undetectable PO4 at 0.1

LPS = highly nitrogenous water at around 10-20ppm NO3 and PO4 still rather low at 0.5ppm


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[Mikey0909]

If you have a tank full of Acros....

How should I raise my nitrates?

 

[ZoWhat]

How should I raise my nitrates?

Reef Chemistry section. I just post this and discovered quite a bit of knowledge

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/potassium-nitrate-vs-sodium-nitrate-which-one-and-why.859324/

 

[Mikey0909]

If you have a tank full of Acros....

SPS = clean water of around 2ppm NO3 and nearly undetectable PO4 at 0.1

LPS = highly nitrogenious water at around 10-20ppm NO3 and PO4 still rather low at 0.5ppm


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I have a a 30 gallon and I have four clown fish and a neon dolly back, I have flatworms so maybe if I got a six line wrasse it may help with that and possibly raise the nitrates? Or would that not work well? All of the fish that I have right now get along really well.

 

[Just John]

Question, what do you feed zoas? My gold dust tend to eat full lps pellets but unless I direct feed, they don't do much

If that was for me, I feed them reef roids.