What does everyone dose to raise nitrates?

jmp21677 · Mar 4, 2018

I have a reefer 170 and struggle to any reading on my nitrate testing. My phosphates are usually in the .04 range. I'm happy with that. I don't run carbon and just pulled chemi pure. What can I dose to get some sort of nitrate? I've tried increasing my feeding but with the limited inhabitants... it's not working.

Luno · Mar 4, 2018

Generally increased feeding, and increased coral food like reef roids

Finhead · Mar 4, 2018

I dose calcium Nirtate works well to keep my nitrates at 1ppm.

Abhishek · Mar 4, 2018

I just do increased feeding . With macrophryngdon , anampses , Halichoeres , copperband butterfly and Randall's anthias along with nps gorgorians - you have little choice not to feed often . With 4-5 feedings of LRS fish Frenzy , reef Frenzy , hikari mysis , cyclops and daily night dose of acro power and phyto - no other chemicals necessary to keep nitrates above 15-20.

I always tell people - first try feeding heavily and then let's look into alternatives if feeding is not helping which it does in 90% cases .

Regards,
Abhishek

chefjpaul · Mar 4, 2018

Seachem here

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 4, 2018

It is easy to buy food grade sodium nitrate and that is my recommendation. If you are monitoring potassium, then potassium nitrate food grade is another good choice. They are available from amazon and other places.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 4, 2018

If phosphate is where you want it, dosing nitrate sounds like a more logical method than feeding heavy which will likely also raise phosphate.

cracker · Mar 4, 2018

I like the Seachem .It's a lot easier to control & predictable than feeding heavy.

jmp21677 · Mar 4, 2018

Is it flourish that everyone uses from seachem? I'm sure the saltwater dosing is different than fresh?

jmp21677 · Mar 4, 2018

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
It is easy to buy food grade sodium nitrate and that is my recommendation. If you are monitoring potassium, then potassium nitrate food grade is another good choice. They are available from amazon and other places.

How do you know where to start your dosing at with a food grade product? 40 gallons total water volume.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 4, 2018

jmp21677 said:
Is it flourish that everyone uses from seachem? I'm sure the saltwater dosing is different than fresh?

That’s the Seachem product, yes.

chefjpaul · Mar 4, 2018

jmp21677 said:
Is it flourish that everyone uses from seachem? I'm sure the saltwater dosing is different than fresh?

Yes.
Use their online calculator and divide by 5 I believe.
http://www.seachem.com/calculators.php

jmp21677 · Mar 4, 2018

chefjpaul said:
Yes.
Use their online calculator and divide by 5 I believe.
http://www.seachem.com/calculators.php

Is the total dosage correct and it just needs to be split into 5 doses or you only add 1/5 total?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 4, 2018

I don’t see how the 5 fits (it is just calculating ppm N).

However, that product is not just nitrate and so even in a perfect calculation, it will not show exactly in nitrate measurements,

FWIW, I’d use a product with a specific known ingredient list and of known purity over the Seachem product,

cilyjr · Mar 4, 2018

I've been dosing Kno3 for a month now. I chose that as I had low k at 390. If it gets above 420 I'll switch to NaNo3.

Kurt Grant · Mar 5, 2018

Seachem Flourish Nitrogen works great

jmp21677 · Mar 6, 2018

I'm going to order the flourish and the food grade. Let's see what happens

zeeGGee · Mar 6, 2018

Stump remover.

jmp21677 · Mar 6, 2018

How do you know where to start with the stump remover as far as dose?

Kurt Grant · Mar 6, 2018

zeeGGee said:
Stump remover.

Yeah i hurd about that but i aint messing with it stick to the Seachem Flourish Nitrogen its super ez.. I have a 140g and i dose 3, 5ml twice a week and it' keeping my nit @03 my my entire tank changed once I started using it