120 Gallon Salty Condo

[schooleyosis]

Understood. Curious to see what will happen with half the feedings if the nitrates are already just above 0???? Worse case I can start feeding more.

 

[bknapp]

More fish and more feeding equal more nitrates. That's the most simplistic way to look at it.

I think once you get those other two tangs in there and have that good sized one spot in there too nitrates will stop being undetectable, and the two 15 gallon water changes you just did probably did remove a good amount of nitrates.

 

[schooleyosis]

Good sized one spot?

 

[bknapp]

Fox face. Is yours not the one spot variety?

 

[schooleyosis]

Oh, forgot about that fatty! Yes, I have a rather large one-spot. I was thinking Tang for some reason.... Duh!!!! LOL.

Is there a form of liquid nitrates you can add to the tank? That sounds really odd but could you add a form of liquid nitrates to help the pellets knock out more phosphates or to just help the pellets in general? Or is food basically liquid nitrates? :smash:

 

[bknapp]

Fish foods and poop both contain nitrates. There are threads or there concerning adding nitrates on purpose in this same situation. I think it came down to using fish tank plant food, so a search for adding nitrates and there should be a few different threads. I can't remember the decisions and findings on those threads.

 

[schooleyosis]

Well I know there's a lot more poop from the Foxface floating around in the tank now that the Blue Tang is gone. We didn't name her Fece for nothing. Lol

 

[Saltgator]

When I ran bio pellets (I pulled mine because I needed to find my culprit to coral issues, basically removed everything I installed or used over the course of a year), my PO4 never dropped, but my nitrates were zero. I was always informed the best way to keep the pellets active/happy and working was to feed the fish. Between the food in the water column and what fish dispensed throughout, my pellets kept working and my fish stayed fat n happy. Good luck bud.

Country Boy using tapatalk on his EVO

 

[schooleyosis]

I'm going to test my P04 again today and see if it has dropped any since the beginning of the week.

I am seeing the best color I have ever seen out of my montipora's with a beautiful growth ring around all of them. All of the corals are looking really good so maybe a good change is in progress here....

 

[Saltgator]

I'm going to test my P04 again today and see if it has dropped any since the beginning of the week.

I am seeing the best color I have ever seen out of my montipora's with a beautiful growth ring around all of them. All of the corals are looking really good so maybe a good change is in progress here....

Great news on your montis. You might have found that sweet spot with the PO4 the corals like.

Country Boy using tapatalk on his EVO

 

[schooleyosis]

I sure hope so. A sign in the positive direction at this point in time is much needed. Let's hope my blue eye shows up looking good to!

 

[schooleyosis]

Blue Eye (Two Spot Bristle Tooth) Tang has arrived

It's tiny!!! between the size of a quarter and a half dollar. Already picking at everything in the QT so I put him a little piece of rock rubble in there from the sump to pick at. Gotta train it to eat GHA before I move it to the DT. LOL

 

[Dowtish]

That fish will grow fast based solely on the amount of available food(GHA) that it will have. :wink:

 

[bknapp]

Small is right. Best of luck with her, she's a beaut.

On the plus side it will take it a while to outgrow your tank.

 

[schooleyosis]

That fish will grow fast based solely on the amount of available food(GHA) that it will have. :wink:

Haha, wishful thinking. That piece of rock rubble is much, much worse than the DT...

Small is right. Best of luck with her, she's a beaut.

On the plus side it will take it a while to outgrow your tank.

Thanks B. Only grows to 8", shouldn't outgrow the tank :nerd:

 

[bknapp]

How's the tang doing in QT? Anything else new?

 

[schooleyosis]

Lots to report. I unfortunately could not get the tang to eat tonight and it is now very shy... Hopefully I can get it to eat tomorrow.

Lost the other Anthias this weekend. 0-3 with them now so who knows what happened there...

On to the good stuff. Phosphate reading was 0.00 on the Hana Checker today! GFO is working along with less feedings.

Added a 2" Niger Trigger from
toxic's tank. It is one of my all-time favorite fish and now I can say I have one. It's a boss when it comes to eating!

Added an utter chaos frag (I think that's
the name) and some ricordias as well but not sure the name on them as well.

So overall good weekend for the tank.

 

[schooleyosis]

Correction. Not utter chaos but ORA Spongodes. I wasn't even close. Lol

 

[bknapp]

Lots to report. I unfortunately could not get the tang to eat tonight and it is now very shy... Hopefully I can get it to eat tomorrow.

Lost the other Anthias this weekend. 0-3 with them now so who knows what happened there...

On to the good stuff. Phosphate reading was 0.00 on the Hana Checker today! GFO is working along with less feedings.

Added a 2" Niger Trigger from
toxic's tank. It is one of my all-time favorite fish and now I can say I have one. It's a boss when it comes to eating!

Added an utter chaos frag (I think that's
the name) and some ricordias as well but not sure the name on them as well.

So overall good weekend for the tank.

Pics or it didn't happen.