Well I looked at some Kno3 from well known chemical store, but the data was pretty much exactly the same as the data for the stump remover. I did my homework and both fresh and saltwater planted tank aquarists use stump remover to boost plant growth and to save money. I have yet to read of anything detrimental occurring. I have also only needed to dose once as of yet my nitrates are still hovering above 0. So unless my colors begin fading or growth slows continued dosing may be infrequent.
I DOSED nitrate, and all can say is WOW!
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Well I looked at some Kno3 from well known chemical store, but the data was pretty much exactly the same as the data for the stump remover. I did my homework and both fresh and saltwater planted tank aquarists use stump remover to boost plant growth and to save money. I have yet to read of anything detrimental occurring. I have also only needed to dose once as of yet my nitrates are still hovering above 0. So unless my colors begin fading or growth slows continued dosing may be infrequent.
Rodrigo_BG
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A have always tested 0 for nitrate and I also have issues with LPS corals and softs. They don't grow in my tank, never. Euphyllia species are the worst, all that I have tried here lost size and bleached. SPS do ok, regular growth. My PO4 is also 0 but overfeed don't work here, it rases PO4 and algaes pops everywhere. SPS lose color also. Target feeding don't make any impact on my LPS's either. Once searching for "lps bleaching" on the internet I found an article stating that LPS corals need some nitrogen to thrive, and the lack of it could start a bleaching process, so I think your problem is suchlike mine. I agree that maybe AA dosing could work since part of it will become NO3 in the end. I will start with AA next week. I also think that my tank is perfect to test KNO3 dosing becouse I have the same problem here. So NO3 for LPS and K for SPS. 
this is my poor bleached torch lacking for something.
here you can see how a ducan looks in my tank.
this is my poor bleached torch lacking for something.
here you can see how a ducan looks in my tank.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15228805#post15228805 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rodrigo_BG
A have always tested 0 for nitrate and I also have issues with LPS corals and softs. They don't grow in my tank, never. Euphyllia species are the worst, all that I have tried here lost size and bleached. SPS do ok, regular growth. My PO4 is also 0 but overfeed don't work here, it rases PO4 and algaes pops everywhere. SPS lose color also. Target feeding don't make any impact on my LPS's either. Once searching for "lps bleaching" on the internet I found an article stating that LPS corals need some nitrogen to thrive, and the lack of it could start a bleaching process, so I think your problem is suchlike mine. I agree that maybe AA dosing could work since part of it will become NO3 in the end. I will start with AA next week. I also think that my tank is perfect to test KNO3 dosing becouse I have the same problem here. So NO3 for LPS and K for SPS.
this is my poor bleached torch lacking for something.
here you can see how a ducan looks in my tank.
Please let us know how the AA's work out!
And if additional help is needed, perhaps you could give kno3 a try and be guinea pig number 2. I think you're tank may be a good candidate for it.
Reefer08
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IMO everyone worries too much about exporting nutrients and not importing them back into our tanks. I noticed a huge improvement in my sps once I started to add more fish and feed very heavily. Sps love fish poop and clean water. The nicest sps tanks ive noticed have measureable nitrates but have very low phosphate.
Peter Eichler
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There are at least a couple other people on here that have been dosing nitrates for a while, though I can't remember who.
Matt_Wandell
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If you're concerned about the potassium confounding any results, you could just use ammonium nitrate. It needs to be added and tested for very carefully, of course, to avoid an ammonia spike. But, since the net result from both ions will be nitrate, you will essentially be adding a "pure" form of nitrate.
HTH,
Matt
HTH,
Matt
Interesting, I just started dosing Sodium Nitrate after discussing my faded Montiporas in a Swedish Community. These Montiopras have done really well in my quarantine tank (which has some nitrate (around 2.5ppm)), but when they hit my main display tank they loose their polyp expansion and fade in color in a couple of weeks. The display tank have not had any measurable nitrate since the beginning of January..
I have only been dosing NaNO3 a couple of days and it is still to early to tell of any difference in the SPS. But some of the soft corals have shown some improvements already. I will keep you guys posted on any improvements from this addition, and as this does not have any potassium in it, it is interesting to see if this also has some effect, if it does not, my next test will be a Potassium supplement.
I have only been dosing NaNO3 a couple of days and it is still to early to tell of any difference in the SPS. But some of the soft corals have shown some improvements already. I will keep you guys posted on any improvements from this addition, and as this does not have any potassium in it, it is interesting to see if this also has some effect, if it does not, my next test will be a Potassium supplement.
Rodrigo_BG
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good to know that, keep posting the results with NaNO3 dosing. I'm really interested about soft and lps responses.
I honestly have no idea, I measured 1/4 - 1/3 teaspoon of the granules and dissolved them into a cup of tank water. I did this two days in a row, but i really have no idea of the composition of what i added was. In the end it raising my nitrate to 15 ppm. It has since come back down to around 2ish. My corals are still doing well and growing! I had a cluster of yellow eye zoas that had not grown since i bought them and it has literally doubled in size in the last couple weeks. So unless the progress slows I'm going wait to dose again.
