Dosing nitrate

[Myka]

Who's dosing nitrate? Please share your recipes, dosing, and experiences.

[Myka]

I make a stock solution using 30 grams sodium nitrate into 500 mL RO/DI water. If I dose 1/2 tsp into my tank (about 80 gallons total volume including displacement from rock, etc) it raises nitrate about 1 ppm. May tank is too young to really post any observations.

I have dosed nitrate in past tanks which I've found helps lower phosphate if the tank was previously nitrate limited. I also find SPS corals to be more colorful at 1-5 ppm nitrate rather than "0".

[dcw1sfu]

Any idea how the seachem flourish nitrate and phosphate products are? I've found that I might have to dose some phosphate as I'm in the opposite boat 0 phosphate on a hanna and about 10 nitrate. I stopped dosing vinegar ad i foind i was having a few problems and started running all in one biopellets and now this is where I'm at with phosphate and nitrates.

On a side note my tank has never looked this clean and haven't cleaned the glass in a week.

[Myka]

I know some people that use the Seachem products, and I've used the Flourish Nitrogen myself. I couldn't find these products recently, so I ordered NaNO3 from a science company in the US. It's much cheaper than using Flourish.

I've been at 0 ppb on the Hanna ULR Phosphorus kit until today I finally hit 6 ppb (0.006 ppm). Phosphate is easy to increase - just feed the crap out of the fish. Why don't you switch back to normal biopellets?

[dcw1sfu]

Originally Posted by Myka

I know some people that use the Seachem products, and I've used the Flourish Nitrogen myself. I couldn't find these products recently, so I ordered NaNO3 from a science company in the US. It's much cheaper than using Flourish.

I've been at 0 ppb on the Hanna ULR Phosphorus kit until today I finally hit 6 ppb (0.006 ppm). Phosphate is easy to increase - just feed the crap out of the fish. Why don't you switch back to normal biopellets?

Was hoping to emiminate the use of GFO which i did. I feed alot pellets twice a day via neptune feeder and then frozen at night as well as nori every other day. Also dose red sea reef energy.

Started kalkwasser again recently (still dosing 2 part as well) which may also be contrubing to the elimination of phosphates. Figure maybe dosong a bit of phosphates might get my nitrates a little lower.

[Myka]

Which checker are you using? The ULR Phosphorus or the Phosphate?

[Myka]

Originally Posted by dcw1sfu

Only direct phosphate reducer I'm using is the all in one biopellets. When I used regular biopellets in the past nitrates were low but required GFO to get the phosphates down. I'm trying to avoid using GFO separately.

Use half of each.

Originally Posted by Craigdillman

ill give you some of my water and you can dose that lol

wish i had that problem of 0ppm nitrate 0ppm phosphate.... soon soon

Funny you mention that - I was using some tank water from another tank to help Introduce nutrients.

[dcw1sfu]

Originally Posted by Myka

Use half of each.


Funny you mention that - I was using some tank water from another tank to help Introduce nutrients.

I thought about using half and half regular bio-pellets to AIO bio pellets, however the flow required fro AIO biopellets is so much greater then what is needed for the regular bio pellets that I thought this might not work so well.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by dcw1sfu

I thought about using half and half regular bio-pellets to AIO bio pellets, however the flow required fro AIO biopellets is so much greater then what is needed for the regular bio pellets that I thought this might not work so well.

Maybe. I haven't tried the AIO pellets...

[Myka]

Ok seriously, none of you SPS geeks are dosing nitrate??? It's all the rage ya know...