About to start dosing stump remover

Randy Holmes-Farley · Aug 7, 2017

ItsAName said:
Nitrate Levels
8/5 15:00 : < 1ppm (undetectable)
8/5 15:30 : Added 225ml (4.1ppm) nitrate
8/5 18:00 : 2ppm
8/6 00:00 : 2ppm
8/6 00:15 : Added 150ml (2.7ppm) nitrate
8/6 17:15 : 3ppm
8/6 17:30 : Added 150ml (2.7ppm) nitrate
8/7 11:30 : 4ppm
8/7 12:00 : Added 180ml (3.2ppm) nitrate

Any apparent change in the tank?

ItsAName · Aug 7, 2017

No changes yet

Luke Schnabel · Aug 7, 2017

You won't see a change in your Coral for a while. You'll get a lot more algae growth though so hopefully you have some hungry tangs and snails

ItsAName · Aug 9, 2017

Nitrate Levels
8/5 15:00 : < 1ppm (undetectable)
8/5 15:30 : Added 225ml (4.1ppm) nitrate
8/5 18:00 : 2ppm
8/6 00:00 : 2ppm
8/6 00:15 : Added 150ml (2.7ppm) nitrate
8/6 17:15 : 3ppm
8/6 17:30 : Added 150ml (2.7ppm) nitrate
8/7 11:30 : 4ppm
8/7 12:00 : Added 180ml (3.2ppm) nitrate
8/8 22:00 : 5-7ppm (hard to tell exactly)
8/9 22:00 : 5ppm (looks exactly 5ppm, will see if it drops below tomorrow)

ItsAName · Aug 10, 2017

8/10 22:30 : Barely 5ppm
8/10 22:35 : Added 50ml (0.9ppm) nitrate

May be starting to find a point on figuring out what to dose regularly

Bluedore · Aug 20, 2017

Any update to this? As I'm having similar issue with zero nitrate and thinking of dosing stomp remover to increase it. Thanks.

ItsAName · Sep 1, 2017

It worked, it got my nitrates back up, but my coral are still not doing well. Still a mystery to me.

Randyp79 · Sep 1, 2017

ItsAName said:
It worked, it got my nitrates back up, but my coral are still not doing well. Still a mystery to me.

Same happened to me when I started dosing. I was dosing 1ppm per day to keep NO3 at 1-2ppm. Corals started getting burnt tips and showing messenterial filaments. Alk never went above 8 the entire time. Stopped dosing and most corals have recovered. Lost 1 no name acro...

Bluedore · Sep 1, 2017

Started on stomp remover a little over a week at 2.5-5 and keeping N04 at around .3-.5, don't see too much of a differences. My system eats up 2.5 No3 a day. Is this normal consumption?

Thanks.

Grey Guy · Sep 1, 2017

Stump remove? Really? These posts totally blow my mind.

ItsAName · Sep 1, 2017

Randyp79 said:
Same happened to me when I started dosing. I was dosing 1ppm per day to keep NO3 at 1-2ppm. Corals started getting burnt tips and showing messenterial filaments. Alk never went above 8 the entire time. Stopped dosing and most corals have recovered. Lost 1 no name acro...

I dont think the stump remover caused any issues, just a diatom outbreak. I'm siphoning the sand every 3 days now and will read up on peroxide or other methods
When I keep the diatoms off the corals they look 33% better, but still not quite there yet

ItsAName · Sep 1, 2017

Grey Guy said:
Stump remove? Really? These posts totally blow my mind.

First time I saw it I thought it was one of those jokes where they tell you to drill a hole in your iphone screen to replace your battery and tricked like a 1000 ppl to do it and destroy their phone. I was like "yeah right I'm going to put stump remover in the tank and kill everything", but what do you know, it works

Trevor40 · May 21, 2018

Any update on this. Seems like this topic has become more popular recently. Haven't seen many do it long term.

ItsAName · May 21, 2018

Definitely worked in regards to keeping my nitrates up. The lack of nitrates were not what was causing my issues, but that doesn't mean this was flawed in anyway.

Randy Holmes-Farley · May 21, 2018

Food grade sodium and potassium nitrate is readily available online. I'd suggest using that instead of an ungraded material (stump remover).

cracker · May 21, 2018

Grey Guy said:
Stump remove? Really? These posts totally blow my mind.

I know what You mean . I thought no way ! It works with no obvious ills. At 1st the tank will use up a lot then all a sudden it stops so be careful not to over shoot your target.

cracker · May 28, 2018

Like I said I have been using this stuff for a while however I see dark stuff floating in the solution so I will take Randy's advice & get some food grade Sodium Nitrate. I'm having to dose regularly now so why take the chance of adding impurities over a long time.