What level are your nutrients?

[oshanickreef]

I'm losing some of my newer frags after taking a closer look. Some montis and a few acropora that have faded and had tissue die off. With my parameters consistently where they are, except for phosphate, I'm going to send water out for a Triton test on Mitesh's advice.

This just happened to me. I lost a few really nice acros. My phosphates have been a little high. Gotta keep it in check!


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[Nanook]

I’m really at a loss with the burnt tips and dying off. I ordered six boxes of salt and will start by doing weekly water changes after one big water change.

 

[chucklez]

Damn, you need a manicure.

 

[Nanook]

I just chewed that one the way I like it

 

[oshanickreef]

What is your method for dosing? How much, how often?

So I mixed sodium nitrate into a old water bottle with RO. There is a page online I found that helped me:

https://www.*********.com/threads/calculating-sodium-nitrate-dosage.328408/

So now if I dose 9ml of my sodium nitrate solution it raises nitrate in my tank by 1ppm. Usually I'll test nitrate and see it's around zero so I'll add 18 ml of my solution I made up.

It works very well and I notice my lps go from deflated looking to puffy and happy. Only thing is after a few days of dosing it seems my tank balances out and my nitrates stay present. So it def isn't something you dose daily or dose without testing first. Also to be safe monitor your phosphates while dosing.


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[smoothdog]

LOL, I found that same page yesterday. That's some good info, thanks! For anyone else trying to figure out where the page is, it's on a reef two reef related site

So I mixed sodium nitrate into a old water bottle with RO. There is a page online I found that helped me:

https://www.*********.com/threads/calculating-sodium-nitrate-dosage.328408/

So now if I dose 9ml of my sodium nitrate solution it raises nitrate in my tank by 1ppm. Usually I'll test nitrate and see it's around zero so I'll add 18 ml of my solution I made up.

It works very well and I notice my lps go from deflated looking to puffy and happy. Only thing is after a few days of dosing it seems my tank balances out and my nitrates stay present. So it def isn't something you dose daily or dose without testing first. Also to be safe monitor your phosphates while dosing.


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[Pife]

I'm now convinced going for low nitrates doesn't work in every tank. Had great colors in lps and sps until I started carbon dosing and running algae scrubber. Now I'm seeing softies brown and burnt tips on sps. Going to test my theory by going back to 40-50 ppm nitrates and see if things bounce back.


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Make one change at a time and do them slowly at that.