How exactly do I dose stump remover to get my nitrates up a little it's at 0 an the overfeeding isn't helping loosing corals as well do I need to shut skimmer off an what's the exact dosage for about 100 gallons
Stump remover
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nervousmonkey
LPS Lover, SPS Enabler
You can also use Seachem Nitrogen, with a formula adjusted to raise nitrates: 0.05vm=n, where v is volume in gallons, m is desired nitrate level in ppm or mg/L, same thing, and n is the amount of Seachem to add.
Rick.45cal
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Go slow brother, test in 24 hours then add more. (You can rest easy knowing it is in there).
What are you using for export methods? Carbon dosing? Refuguim?
I stopped the carbon for now was using phosgaurd to bring down the phosphate it was .9 but if I'm wright I hear the potassium nitrate brings the po4 down so should I take out phosgaurd an put carbon back?
Rick.45cal
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What are your phosphates at now? What you don't want to happen is to have NO3 and no PO4 it can have REALLY bad effects on your corals. So just be careful with the Phosguard to not remove all of your PO4. I'd use a small amount and bring them down slowly. You can leave you carbon in, it won't affect anything.
Carbon dosing will lower NO3 and to a lesser extent the PO4, the trick is not to let either one reach zero. You want some of both.
Carbon dosing will lower NO3 and to a lesser extent the PO4, the trick is not to let either one reach zero. You want some of both.
nervousmonkey
LPS Lover, SPS Enabler
phosguard only lasts for a short period of time, as in days, so taking it out wasn't a bad thing. Rick is correct, Phosguard strips PO4 quickly, so be careful with it and measure PO4 frequently.
nervousmonkey
LPS Lover, SPS Enabler
Phosguard? It's a very short term solution to get phosphates down quickly. A better solution would be GFO, Brightwell's X-Port PO4 cubes, Brightwell's PhosphatR, for short term, Brightwell's Phosphate-E, the list goes on for phosphate remover. I'm using a Fauna Marin product called Ultra Phos 0.04 Phosphate remover and it's working well, states that it won't let PO4 drop below 0.04, though I have yet to test that.
If you use Phosguard you should add it and test it over 3-4 days. With the other products (minus Phosphate-E which you have to test daily), you don't necessarily need to test that much, but it's not a bad idea to test a lot if your parameters are out of whack...
If you use Phosguard you should add it and test it over 3-4 days. With the other products (minus Phosphate-E which you have to test daily), you don't necessarily need to test that much, but it's not a bad idea to test a lot if your parameters are out of whack...
nervousmonkey
LPS Lover, SPS Enabler
oh, stump remover is a dose and test for sure. Until you can keep nitrates up without dosing, then you'll have to test
nervousmonkey
LPS Lover, SPS Enabler
Let's get an expert in here though to give you better info, @twilliard is definitely a pro when it comes to stump remover dosing, he can help you figure it out and explain more. Also, you should probably find out why you are getting zero nitrates. Are you using biopellets? carbon dosing? GAC? really strong skimming? how many fish do you have? They help increase nitrates a lot, even cheap little mollies will adapt to saltwater.
nervousmonkey
LPS Lover, SPS Enabler
You could use more fish, that would help. Amazing that you got down to zero NO3 without an explicit nutrient removal system, but every tank is different.
nervousmonkey
LPS Lover, SPS Enabler
what kind, some larger than rated Reef Octo skimmers have been known to strip NO3. I have a friend who has to run his Reef Octo for only 12 hours a day to get it normal...
