Nitrates and phosphates - Red Sea NO3:PO4-X

[Treebeard]

So won't doing large water changes eventually deplete all of the stored nutrients from the live rock?

Originally Posted by Zoaelite

Not if that problem liverock is leaching dissolved nutrients back into your tank.

[Proteus]

Over time but if your over feeding than you still adding to the water colomn

[Treebeard]

Fish in this tank:

- Box fish
- Hippo tang
- Sailfin tang
- Kole tang
- Lawnmower blenny
- Royal Gramma
- Clown fish
- Matted file fish
- Leopard eel

The morning feeding is either a 2" square piece of nori or a New Era grazer.
The evening feeding is a couple of pinches of NLS pellets.
The eel gets a couple of 1/4" chunks of shrimp every 3 days.
I also feed the tank a small chunk of mysis once a week.

THE CUC was reduced to a couple of larger turbo snails until last week when I added a fresh crew consisting of about 22 hermits and 1/2 dozen snails.

[Proteus]

Are you on a canister filter or a sump

[Treebeard]

Running about 25 gallons in a sump. Also running GFO and carbon in a couple of TLF reactors.

Originally Posted by Titus99

Are you on a canister filter or a sump

[Treebeard]

After further consideration, perhaps vodka dosing should be tried instead of spending money on fancy alternatives. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

[denny_CC]

Originally Posted by Treebeard

After further consideration, perhaps vodka dosing should be tried instead of spending money on fancy alternatives. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

another option is bio pellets as well

go slow if you go VSV find out what you need and work slowly to it , dont expect results over night , since its carbon dosing it needs to be handled slowly and monitored closely over time youll find your sweet spot and how much you need.


cheers!

denny

[denny_CC]

Originally Posted by Treebeard

So won't doing large water changes eventually deplete all of the stored nutrients from the live rock?

no because as the left over nutrients rot more they produce more nitrates, the quality of your liverock has alot to do with it too, if its base rock or not pourous its not going to be as effective as rock that is more pourous.


how long have you had nitrate issues


have you considered carbon dosing

[Treebeard]

It is good liver rock and some of it is very porous.
I am not sure when the nitrates actually got to this level because I stopped testing for a few months when the tank seemed happy, and it still is happy. Algae is not a huge problem, but I did add a couple of SPS which I never tried before. The tank was previously stocked with mainly LPS which were/are doing good. I added a monti and an acro which are showing good growth, but the colors are not.
Red Sea NO3:PO4-X.

Originally Posted by denny@conceptaquatics

no because as the left over nutrients rot more they produce more nitrates, the quality of your liverock has alot to do with it too, if its base rock or not pourous its not going to be as effective as rock that is more pourous.


how long have you had nitrate issues


have you considered carbon dosing