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Very interesting read. I've always been told to keep pristeen water qty. 0 on everthing, and i have been doing that. Recently bought a rock piece with zoa's, mushrooms amd a small leather on it from a LFS. Was told the leather liked the water a little dirty. I didn't know what they were talking about. They were saying that you need a little nitrate and phos. because the corals feed on that. I do weekly water changes and keep nitrate and phos at zero. My corals do okay but not much grow at all. Was told to cut back on the water changes and see what happens. They have a large DT (260) and it looks amazing with water changes every couple months.
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I know it hasn't been but 3 or 4 days but have u noticed any difference yet in the corals after raising the alk?
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I've been keeping NO3 5-10ppmwith potassium nitrate and my corals are doing great
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I checked my levels today and they are as followed
No3-2 ppm Po4-0.00 ppm Alk-9.9 Calcium-400 ppm I'm raising my alk and calcium dosing up 1 ml a day since they are dropping very slowly. I'm also going to raise my po4 dosing to .12 daily and no3 to 2 ppm daily. |
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Following! Great thread so far
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Those links appear to be dead.
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I'm mixing a new ratio of nitrate and phosphate solution to dose. My current solution was 16:1 ratio of nitratehosphate and my nitrates have slowly climbed to 10 ppm the last month and phosphates have been slowly lowering to 0.00. The new solution will be a 9:1 ratio. I'm going to stop dosing nitrates and just dose phosphates and let my nitrates come down naturally.
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So what I've discovered in the last few months is that phosphate levels didn't matter as much as I was led to believe. I'm running po4 at .3 now with zero issues. As soon as nitrates hit zero or above 5 I tend to have issues though. At zero I start to get more gha and anything above 5 coral growth slows significantly.
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ok wait a second... Why would someone like me struggle with high nitrates when you have to dose them?
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So today I accidentally dosed 1.26 ppm phosphates. My nitrates and phosphate containers look exactly the same so instead of dosing .1 phosphates and and 1 ppm nitrate I did the opposite. I think instead of trying to remedy the situation I'm going to let it ride. I figure the whole point of this thread was to see phosphates and nitrates effects on coral so ill update and tell everyone what happens.
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Well, I hope the tank pulls through. I suspect it'll be fine.
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At this point if you didn't know any better you would think my perimeter were great. Sps, Lps, and zoanthids all look great. Right now my phosphates are 1 ppm and nitrates are 20. I think I may leave it like this for a while and see what happens.
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We don't actually know that high phosphate levels do much except likely slow down calcification a bit. Tanks with high mineralized nutrients like nitrate and phosphate often seem to have problems, but it could be due to factors correlated to nutrients, like organics in the water column. I would be cautious with dosing mineralized nutrients, but there's not much evidence of harm for a fairly wide range of dosing levels.
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That's another interesting data point and line of thought. If testing the organics in a water sample were straightforward, we might be able to get more information on the issue in a reasonable fashion, but I don't know of any technology in sight that would help.
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One experiment that is not well controlled for the many variables in an aquarium may not prove anything. Also, in science, a theory isn't proven, it just fails to be disproven up to the current moment. I don't mean to be discouraging, just wanted to point out to other citizen scientists that studying biological systems is notoriously difficult. Sometimes doing nothing and just waiting obtains the same results as the experimental conditions or latest additive on the market. You probably learned a lot, and certainly enjoyed the study, but it would probably take you years of experimenting to understand the relationship of elevated nitrate and phosphates on coral growth. |
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