Thats literally massive surface area, massive.
thats every frag tank from the chicest fish stores I've ever seen.
it's not like you're dealing in untested waters, about two thousand of those above have seneyes hooked to them showing what ammonia does in that exact setting, and it's fine
it's not ammonia. that's simply too much surface area, coral frags are surface area (then becomes live rock in another millennia with it's surface area prowess still in tact)
your bioload is so low I can't even see any fish. I know some are in there but its not like ten regal angels fouling up the place. It is biologically impossible for that reef tank to fail to control ammonia. if you know anyone with a seneye, having them bring it over and hook it up could be soooo helpful
and if nobody near has a seneye, we'd stop factoring ammonia and increase work+protein+clean water throughput sustained like reef exercise
its currently sedentary
for eight weeks/reef will pop shine/ammonia never mattered. no doser, param, nothing is as important as dropping light levels a bit, go down a small % in power and lighter whites/a little deeper blues sustain for eight weeks while doing something markedly different in stepped-up feed + water change habits, for two mos
it works exactly like a lifting program for a human. reef exercise rebuilding. applying updated cycling science which never flinches on ammonia without a calibrated seneye telling us to makes you free to apply the real changes your tank needs. if you worked to suppress ammonia here, you'd bleach out those corals eventually.
if in fact you wanted to add ammonia into this tank, I would agree, based on these threads:
Hello all, Do any of you dose ammonia or ammonium instead of dosing nitrate? How do you dose it? What form do you use? I dose sodium nitrate and sodium phosphate in my tanks because dosing ammonia scares the crap out of me, and Im afraid the ammonia would just be broken down by bacteria in the...
humble.fish
So, after an interesting discussion on nitrate dosing and looking at my Walt Disney coral and seeing it slightly less colorful than I have seen it in others tanks, I have decided I want to learn about and then try dosing ammonia instead of buying 20 damsels. Nitrate additives I see abound and...
www.reef2reef.com
your tank can be benefitted by ammonia, there's no backup, it's right there on file above via seneye.
*our stepped up coral feeding plan increases nitrate too. the reason those folks were adding ammonia above, to running reefs, knowing that all reefs handle extra ammonia quickly, is because that too boosts nitrogen.
same ends. your tank is handling ammonia fine. the spin tester is a glorified API reader.
don't run any form of nitrate or phosphate removal on this system during the exercise routine. food in, bulk water changes only.
still nh4
