Already am. I’ve always used supplements on my reef I just ran out and couldn’t find any for the last few months thanks to covid and there not being a real convenient lfs near me. Gotta drive an hour at least to find one. Petco has jack here
I found the problem! I had used two WHOLE sets of nitrate and phosphate reducing pads during a huge ammonia spike months ago. My wife mentioned it earlier tonight. I was like ???? Did I really? Sure enough they were in my sump. Tossed all but a single pad of each. Hopefully that helps.
I had the same problem in my tank. I have had good luck with Brightwell's NeoNitro and NeoPhos over the past 3 months or so. Took me a couple weeks to slowly raise it and then it stabilized with small daily dosages.
Did it help with your zoa health?
I think so. My polyps are much larger now. I also switched to a Kessil a360x from an AI Prime HD which some have said helped increase their polyp size, but I still think the nutrients are also a primary contributing factor.
I thought the same thing as it mentions ULNS which is not what I was wanting. I first saw mention of these products in the SBB " High End Tenuis Hoarder" thread where he keeps high nutrients for his sps. I am using them in a tank which I only keep zoas and mushrooms in and have been keeping 10-25 Nitrates and .05-.1 phosphates for the past few months. If you want lower levels you can just dose less. It took a week or two for both parameters to start registering on my test kits but then they stabilized. In my system I do have to dose daily to keep them stable.
I can swap lights im in a biocube but I can raise nutrients. I don’t have a phosphate test, is raising it without a test dandgerous or will it just cause an algea outbreak?
I would suggest getting a test kit if possible. Hanna has a few good Low Range Phosphate/Phosphorous checkers.
I can’t afford a Hanna. I’ll hve to get a cheap test kit and maybe some additive for pho’s.
Been doing this for 8 years. Never lost a coral yet. Pretty sure I can handle it. Also, where did you find one that cheap? I can't find a salifert test anywhere under like 50$ even just googling it. Id like to have a complete salifert test kit if I could find one for something reasonable.
I think I've been looking at red seas not salifert. I found a huge salifert kit that does basically everything for close to 100$ I think may be the best deal since I could trash this API kit for the Nitrate, nitrite, ect.
I think when I get home im going to try a longer, less concentrated H202 dip to try and remove any algae that is irritating them. Ive had a cyano outbreak and a red "dust" kind of algae is moving in over them but it can't be blown off using a sea squirt so im beginning to wonder if its some type of fungus or something.
