Dosing nutrients

[kilnakorr]

Hi

My tank is roughly 3 months old with a few fish and som lps.
I have low NO3 (roughly 1 ppm) and PO4 is 0.00 -0.01 on hanna po4 ulr checker.

I have som short green algae on most of my rocks that is directly hit with lights, but nothing out of control.

For the last 10 days I've been dosing phyto/zooplankton mix, but doesn't seem to increase nutrients.

Question is if I should dose some and how much how fast? (like raise NO3 to 5ppm with 1ppm a day).

My corals look ok, but not perfect. 2 smaller torches not having nice long polyps.

 

[Oldreefer44]

IMO, as long as you have detectable NO3 and PO4 you shouldn't be too concerned. At 3 months your tank is still pretty young and will likely go through several stages where numbers will change on there own. As long as Alk, Ca and Mg are stable I would just let things go for awhile.