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Reefing One Day @ A Time!!!
For the last month my weekly water tests I've had readings of zero Nitrate and Phosphate so I started yesterday dosing N&P. Today my BTA's when from this
To this
And the only change was trying to dirty the water a bit. Before I hit all zeros I was at 5ppm nitrate and .02ppm Phosphate. So what gives?
I'm dosing 1 ml hourly of Pharma Grade Sodium Nitrate mixed at 1 cup powder into 1 Gallon of RODI water which is adding 1.1 ppm ish daily. I did a initial dose of 100 ml and tested about a hour later. On a Salifert test I got 5ppm doing the test twice to double check myself. Tested again tonight and still have 5ppm.
As for PO4 I started dosing Sea Chem Phosphorus I did a initial dose yesterday of 15ml and still test zero on my Hanna LR PO4. I opened a new box of powder and retested with the same results.
Remaining perimeters are as follows
Alk 9.5DKH Hanna
Ca 445 Salifert
Mg 1450 Salifert
Salinity 1.025 Refractometer ( calibrated before each use )
PH 8.2 Apex
Chaeto under a Kessil H380 used to grow from a golf ball to a basketball monthly, now has stalled completely.
No GFO running for months
Carbon ran 24/7 changed weekly
Never had a water change in the two years this tank has been up and running.
Reg IO salt
Dosing:
Alk 48ml daily ( 1 ml every 30 minutes )
Ca 48ml daily ( 2 ml every hour )
Kalk 1 gallon daily fast constant drip
ESV B-Ionic Transition Elements 4 ml at 1030 daily
Acropower 4 ml at 1530 daily
RO Regal 250 Skimmer runs 24/7
Kessil H380 over fuge runs 14 hours nightly ( 1 hour before DT lights out and 1 hour after they turn back on )
6 AI Sol Blue lights running:
Blue & Royal Blues start two hour ramp from 0 to 90% from 0800 to 1000
White 1 hour ramp up from 0 to 10% from 1000 to 1100
Whites ramp down 1800 to 1900 to zero
Blue & Royal Blues ramp down from 1900 to 2100 to zero
T5's all 4 are ATI Blue + ( 3 months old ) on from 1100 to 1800 then off.
Can't think of any other info that could be useful. But if there is please ask as I cannot figure out what's going on as everything else in the tank is looking awesome. SPS, LPS, softies all still looking good.
Small batch of Dino's stating to show it's ugly face by my zoa garden, small batch of cyano right under my 280 gyre.
To this
And the only change was trying to dirty the water a bit. Before I hit all zeros I was at 5ppm nitrate and .02ppm Phosphate. So what gives?
I'm dosing 1 ml hourly of Pharma Grade Sodium Nitrate mixed at 1 cup powder into 1 Gallon of RODI water which is adding 1.1 ppm ish daily. I did a initial dose of 100 ml and tested about a hour later. On a Salifert test I got 5ppm doing the test twice to double check myself. Tested again tonight and still have 5ppm.
As for PO4 I started dosing Sea Chem Phosphorus I did a initial dose yesterday of 15ml and still test zero on my Hanna LR PO4. I opened a new box of powder and retested with the same results.
Remaining perimeters are as follows
Alk 9.5DKH Hanna
Ca 445 Salifert
Mg 1450 Salifert
Salinity 1.025 Refractometer ( calibrated before each use )
PH 8.2 Apex
Chaeto under a Kessil H380 used to grow from a golf ball to a basketball monthly, now has stalled completely.
No GFO running for months
Carbon ran 24/7 changed weekly
Never had a water change in the two years this tank has been up and running.
Reg IO salt
Dosing:
Alk 48ml daily ( 1 ml every 30 minutes )
Ca 48ml daily ( 2 ml every hour )
Kalk 1 gallon daily fast constant drip
ESV B-Ionic Transition Elements 4 ml at 1030 daily
Acropower 4 ml at 1530 daily
RO Regal 250 Skimmer runs 24/7
Kessil H380 over fuge runs 14 hours nightly ( 1 hour before DT lights out and 1 hour after they turn back on )
6 AI Sol Blue lights running:
Blue & Royal Blues start two hour ramp from 0 to 90% from 0800 to 1000
White 1 hour ramp up from 0 to 10% from 1000 to 1100
Whites ramp down 1800 to 1900 to zero
Blue & Royal Blues ramp down from 1900 to 2100 to zero
T5's all 4 are ATI Blue + ( 3 months old ) on from 1100 to 1800 then off.
Can't think of any other info that could be useful. But if there is please ask as I cannot figure out what's going on as everything else in the tank is looking awesome. SPS, LPS, softies all still looking good.
Small batch of Dino's stating to show it's ugly face by my zoa garden, small batch of cyano right under my 280 gyre.
