0 nitrate 0 phosphate

Clown93 · Jun 17, 2023

Does anyone know why my nitrates and phosphate have been at 0 and not moving much from there last nitrate reading was 0.2 ppm moved from 0.0 ppm a week before

MoshJosh · Jun 17, 2023

need more info, tank size, filtration, stocking, feeding, etc.

Lps_lover12 · Jun 17, 2023

Agree with @MoshJosh and in the meantime order some neonitro and neophos to get those up

Idech · Jun 17, 2023

If it’s a lightly stocked, new tank, it’s hard to get nitrates to rise sometimes. My tank had no nitrates and phosphates for more than a year. I had to dose.

randomfishdude · Jun 17, 2023

Do need more info. But you might wanna feed more before you get dinos.

Also please don't dose nitrate and phosphate. It makes your alk shoot up.

Lps_lover12 · Jun 17, 2023

randomfishdude said:
Do need more info. But you might wanna feed more before you get dinos.

Also please don't dose nitrate and phosphate. It makes your alk shoot up.

Not saying your wrong but in my experience it didn’t

randomfishdude · Jun 17, 2023

Lps_lover12 said:
Not saying your wrong but in my experience it didn’t

I know pepole get varying results. But the other person who runs my 75 with me added some neonitrate and it shot the alk up.
By what I know it was due to the fact that when nitrate is formed a bit of alk gets taken away.
When it gets "destroyed" that gets released. But if you remove the creation it really throes it off when in big proportion.
It also was a dosing mistake on my end.

Clown93 · Jun 18, 2023

Thanks for all the replies I have a 20 gallon IM I have two snowflake clownfish two Mandarin dragonets a torch coral two yuma mushrooms and a splatter bta everything looks fine except my torch after doing some thinking I dose pods too feed my mandarins and have been for month's and I aslo dose Oceanmagik phyto too feed my pods and in my research phyto after it grows and reproduces it digests nitrates and phosphate so I'm guessing I overdosed for too long and it completely stripped my nitrates and phosphate?

exnisstech · Jun 18, 2023

randomfishdude said:
Do need more info. But you might wanna feed more before you get dinos.

Also please don't dose nitrate and phosphate. It makes your alk shoot up.

This has not been the case for me. I use sodium nitrate and trisodium phosphate and never had a problem with alk being elevated.