working on it.Your soft corals are literally sucking the nutrients dry in your system. Try reaching a consistent 5ppm Nitrate as other have recommend.
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working on it.Your soft corals are literally sucking the nutrients dry in your system. Try reaching a consistent 5ppm Nitrate as other have recommend.
Starting to see some orange color return to my Sunset Monti.
Not sure why people have ignored my questions but I will ask something else.
Is the stump remover an organic or inorganic form of nitrate? and... is there a difference between the two in terms of what our tank inhabitants need?
tcarter1963 I appreciate seeing the pictures and can clearly see nutrient starvation.
I started dosing today due to lack of color in my corals. I have a lot of brown frags and some that have been going pale and are dying. Mixed 2 tbls to 1000 ml and dosed 5ml to my @ 65G volume system. My previous No3(Red Sea) was reading < .25 and Po4 is 0 ULR). No3 jumped up to 1~2 ppm @4 hrs. after dosing. Will test tomorrow at same time to see if it holds. I have a RS Pro coming in Tuesday for better resolution of tests. As noted, the regular No3 test is hard to read...
One question I have is about running a BP reactor. I'm not sure if I should take it off line or not while trying to raise and maintain my No3 to 4~5ppm. Suggestions??
My phosphates have dropped considerably, what should I do about that? They are sitting and 0.01ppm, Hanna ULR, that's low but better that zero I guess.
I have been dosing since Friday in my 42 gallon. Amazed how much the tank consumes in 24hrs. Goal is to get it up to 4 and then dose daily depending on the consumption. I have a fairly new reef (3mths olds) and I am more or less experimenting with 4 poccilorpora frags before purchasing any Acro's. Due to having low phosphate and no nitrate they have already lost alot of color but are growing.
Haven't noticed any change yet in the coral except maybe increased polyp extension. Tank is going through a bit a of the "uglies" and has some hair algae on the rocks. The algae was a very light brown before dosing and has deepended in color and much more noticeable. I do seem to have more algae on the sandbed, however, it may have already been there and since the dosing it has darkened in color and is just more noticeable.
PO4 (hanna ULR) read .06 on Saturday and dropped to .018 Sunday! I had read this could happen but now wondering what I should do if it continues to drop? Only nutrient export is skimmer and chaeto in fuge.Any suggestions, feed more and get rid of chaeto? Currently only have 3 fish and CUC.
I've been running it since day 1. I'll take some of the @ 450 ml of pellets out and see what happens, ThxHow long have you been running the BP reactor? I wouldnt shut it off completely but remove say 1/4 a week maybe 2 and cut it down so you dont shock your system! hope this helps!