Daily nitrate increase.

[thatone08]

Is there a point at which I should be concerned about my increase in nitrates.

seems to always be 1.2 -2 ppm a day. Not sure why it’s so high.

 

[Idech]

It’s increasing 1 to 2 ppm a day ? How much is it right now ?

 

[J1a]

Is there a point at which I should be concerned about my increase in nitrates.

seems to always be 1.2 -2 ppm a day. Not sure why it’s so high.

If daily increase by 1-2 ppm, then it means your export process cannot cope with the import.

Perhaps you can improve ur export process?

 

[thatone08]

Right now it’s 19.2 using Hanna.

water change Sunday got me to 10.

20 gallon Red Sea max nano. With skimmer and 250 micron sock.

2 blue chromis.

feeding Hikari pellets. Mysis occasionally for scolymia and other LPS.

flow is rfg nozzle on ther return and a 240 gph power head. Picking up ther Nero 3 hopefully soon, to get more flow and take care of some dead zones have a very minor cyano problem. In the back corners.

I had Dino’s about a 2 months ago. Phosphate was completely bottomed out.

overfed pellets to get phosphate up. Not sure if this a residual effect from that I have been basting rocks to get out detritus.



Been doing a 50% water change weekly, everything looks good, but not seeing the 10% water change a week as a viable option for me.

have looked at possible refugium setups but it’s hard with haw the nano is setup. As I don’t want to hang o e on the display glass sides and have the light goi g into the display.

also just recently started dosing microbacter 7 to help with breakdown of organics, bottle says daily dosing for first week, which I am about to start the second week.