5 small fish in a 40 gallon may have room to increase his bioload and add visual appeal. Depending on his scape and filtration. There are often multiple methods for addressing tank situations in this hobby and each tank is unique so this affords the hobbies to choose what works best for their situation. As you gain more experience you will understand this better and not be shocked by informative responses you see....good luck
Agree, Not only this and extra food is fine, but say you have bristle worms, hydroids or a vermited worm issue (who dosent?) Now your helping them survive and possibly thrive. If you are trying to get n03 and p04 up why would you not just add what you need, instead of adding food that will one day turn into what you need. Also food can be more expensive than diy additives, its just a different way to achieve what you want , but what side effects come from each method is really the question for me.
I agree with you. I had to double dose neophos and neonitro for multiple weeks to get measurable numbers. Over feeding can work but just depends on tank inhabitants. Some fish will pig out 4x a day while others maybe 2x so you have to employ what works best for your tank.
Bacteria will lower them even more , just dose them as you need them if that's every day then add it everyday I add p04 neophos every day! And n03 neophos about once maybe twice a week to keep in range.
N03 neonitro* for nitrates
yeah this tank all of a sudden went wild!!! dino are obviously still in the tank and im slowly seeing Ciano.
Imo there is good reason to use dosing instead of relying on increased feeding. Whatever food we feed to the aquarium requires many organisms to eventually break them down into inorganic nutrients such as nitrate and phosphate.
yeah this is just a whole new world for me on dosing. My tank was really thriving and corals were growing them WHAM!! haha. But this is why we have forums because someone out there has been through this.
Yeah my skimmer has been off for a week, still have filters socks on but im dosing a lot. Some people said add another fish to the tank to.
Me personally you are in a good spot because you are noticing something happening and are correcting it and expanding your knowledge on it .be careful with dosing depending on the system it could get overdosed quickly too, just like its disappearing on you now, so make sure you test every few days, depending on your system and what range your trying to be in. It should/could come to a point where you can back off any dosing of N&P or maybe just a once a month correction dose of one or another, then in a unknown amount of time you could be needing to reduce these levels and require no dosing but using nutrient removal tactics, basically it all revolves knowing what state your water is in, and it's values. Testing is needed depending on the system you are trying to keep, I've also gone down the no testing road but now I'm here.
Try putting your skimmer on a timmer just to run at night thats what I do on one of my systems, I believe it helps drive co2 down at night, but also it's good to have agitation in the system and a skimmer is great for that even if it's for 6hrs at night, I do it for the entire lights off period.
ok i will give that a try thanks again.
Man i am not seeing any results with dosing at all, 0 phosphates and 0 nitrates. This is wild man i have no idea whats going on or taking so long, i havent done a water change in like 3 weeks also.
