Dosing nitrates, and chemical problems.

[painfullycurious88]

Having to dose about 5ml of nitrates daily, and LFS suggests adding 3x anthias or 3-5 chromis to create enough waste to stabilize. Tank is 75 gallon, has 1 tang, 2 clownfish, 1 melanus wrasse, 1 goby. I also found out both Salifert & API are giving bad information on KH had to test it against red sea pro & hannah and it was awful. Salifert mag was over 200 above too after 2 different test kits. Not fun.

Should I add the fish? Should I just continue dosing nitrates?

 

[Saltyreef]

You can proceed however you feel comfortable in the long run.
Adding more fish to increase nutrients seems very plausible as you are lightly stocked at best.
If you dont have any more room for fish then id consider long term nitrate dosing.

 

[Saltyreef]

Normally salifert and red sea tests are highly regarded. Api not so much.
And hanna is a photometer/colorimeter so its values may be different for the same sample.

 

[painfullycurious88]

You can proceed however you feel comfortable in the long run.
Adding more fish to increase nutrients seems very plausible as you are lightly stocked at best.
If you dont have any more room for fish then id consider long term nitrate dosing.

I just fear overstocking and ruining the balance. I just beat dinos but it took dosing nitrates. I have just got to figure out what I want next. I thought the tang would max out a 75 but daily dosing says otherwise. And I even took out part of my filter media.