Nitrates?

[saltnewb]

Are nitrates good or bad for zoas? Trying to figure out if I need to do a big water change or just small changes over multiple days.

 

[Elementalj]

Are nitrates good or bad for zoas? Trying to figure out if I need to do a big water change or just small changes over multiple days.

We're having a nitrate discussion in another thread, but I'll chime in here. I'm thinking that below 10ppm is good. Others will say higher or lower, so I would pay attention to them (zoa's) as well.

 

[saltnewb]

Link to the thread?

 

[Elementalj]

Cycling

https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/Cycling.281046/

 

[saltnewb]

Thanks!

 

[Elementalj]

Thanks!

No problem! [emoji6][emoji1611]

 

[Chris Bark]

to my experience zoa likes a bit dirty water

 

[joshporksandwich]

I haven't tested for them in 5 years

 

[A. grandis]

Here:

You can keep very low or even undetectable nitrates and have an amazing zoa tank!
You also can have a bit or sometimes high nitrates levels and still keep zoas really well.
That tells me that would be much better to keep nitrates undetectable.
That way you can remove that nutrient our of the question with the problems that comes with it.
My nitrates are most of the time undetectable. Water changes are good!

Grandis.

 

[ChiCity]

You need to keep your phos around .03-.05
Along with other parameters, and a bit of voodoo...
Zoas and palys can be a real pain at times, especially the nicer morphs

 

[saltnewb]

Just did a water change this past weekend. I'll be doing another one in a couple days again to get those nitrates down. Still need to get a reef test kit for everything else though.

 

[Elementalj]

Just did a water change this past weekend. I'll be doing another one in a couple days again to get those nitrates down. Still need to get a reef test kit for everything else though.

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Check amazon.

 

[drewstaxplaya]

ive had nitrates as high as 50 with thriving zoas and as low as 2.5ppm. also had phosphate as high as .75 and as low as .1ppm. always had good looking zoas, but tbh they looked best around 25ppm and .1-.25 of po4.

 

[wattson]

did you have alot of algae/cyano at those higher numbers of No3 and Po4 ?? more film algae on glass too?

 

[drewstaxplaya]

not really tbh. i only have a 29 bio so i just get in there with a toothbrush every week or so and clean the glass anyways

 

[saltnewb]

Good to know. I just posted the rest of my water parameters. Looks like. Y phosphates are way too high at 2.0ppm

 

[drewstaxplaya]

yea thats veryyyyy high. even .25ppm is high. in my tank i use phosban and chemipure. has my no3 currently between 2.5-5ppm and po4 at .1

 

[Paul B]

I have Zoa"s growing out of my Zoa's, and my nitrates are 140 with my phosphate at 2.0. Does that make me a bad person?

 

[drewstaxplaya]

hey i guess if it works it works lol.

 

[saltnewb]

I have Zoa"s growing out of my Zoa's, and my nitrates are 140 with my phosphate at 2.0. Does that make me a bad person?

Glad to hear from someone that is still having success even with parameters similar to mine. The zoas I have in there seem to be doing fine and only one of the zoa frags seemed like there was a problem, looked like it was turning white. I moved it to a different spot in the tank, gets way more water flow, and seems like the color is coming back.