Any help on how to raise nitrates and phosphates removed roller Matt no more socks removed skimmer heavy feeding now. All 7 days no difference. And I got 3 different test kits. Do I need to put a dang dead rat in there lmk your thoughts. Thanks
Nitrates and phosphates
- Thread starter chuck
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What's "Heavy Feeding" and what do you feed?
When I was scraping the bottom of both nutrients I dosed 2 things. First, Sodium Nitrate (NaNO3) that I got in a granulated form from @Adam I did some research and diluted 30 grams of NaNO3 in 300 mL of RODI water. Then I dosed it accordingly. The second product I dosed for the phosphates was Seachem Flourish Phosphorous. I was so scared of overdosing the Flourish that I only added 0.1 mL per dose just to keep the PO4 from being zero.
The whole time I was feeding heavy and not doing regular water changes. Now I'm at a point where I don't dose any longer it took a LOT longer to get to this point than I would have guessed when I started. I added a few fish as well and didn't start noticing system-generated NO3 and PO4 for nearly four weeks.
The whole time I was feeding heavy and not doing regular water changes. Now I'm at a point where I don't dose any longer it took a LOT longer to get to this point than I would have guessed when I started. I added a few fish as well and didn't start noticing system-generated NO3 and PO4 for nearly four weeks.
I'm in the same boat, zeros. I added a bunch of bio media about a month ago to be able to see my frag tank after I decided to add another tank. I almost started to dose nitrate and phosphate but I held off until I remove the extra bio media and let things settle back in.
Rods food frozen like 4 times a day
Rods frozen food
reef roids will make your phosphates rise. I use to feed reef roids heavy a couple times a week and my phosphates went thru the roof
It's going to take time, like Justin said. It's a fine balance finding a way to get some nutrients in the water and feeding too much.
Eric_n_Ga
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How do you get no phosphates are all y'all running gfo reactors ?
I'm not doing anything wish I was and I could quit
