What does everyone dose to raise nitrates?

[jmp21677]

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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

So you dose 15ml twice a week?

 

[Kurt Grant]

Yes sir!!!! You'll notice the change in your corals with in days!!

 

[rosshamsandwich]

just feed more...more meaty foods
i feed shrimp

 

[McArcher]

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.

I have been looking online for food grade sodium nitrate and all I can find is lab grade (don’t know enough to know what the difference is). Every time I search food grade, it keeps pulling up curing salt (sodium nitrite). Do you have a recommendation for sourcing?

 

[Dennis Cartier]

I have been looking online for food grade sodium nitrate and all I can find is lab grade (don’t know enough to know what the difference is). Every time I search food grade, it keeps pulling up curing salt (sodium nitrite). Do you have a recommendation for sourcing?

Here is a link to some Reagent grade (better than Food grade) https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Nitra...qid=1520905798&sr=8-1&keywords=sodium+nitrate

Dennis

 

[McArcher]

Here is a link to some Reagent grade (better than Food grade) https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Nitra...qid=1520905798&sr=8-1&keywords=sodium+nitrate

Dennis

Thanks!

 

[rosshamsandwich]

wait is Stump Remover frowned upon for nitrate?

 

[lbacha]

Green leaf Aquatics is another place to get kno3. They sell it for the freshwater planted folks and that is what I use when I need to dose nitrates.

As to overfeeding all it did for me was raise my phosphates and still no measurable nitrates

 

[erky]

wait is Stump Remover frowned upon for nitrate?

i dont believe so, not sure why it would be this is what people have been using for a while.

what i use as well, 20g per liter of ro water, ~300ml will raise my 180g by about 4 ppm.

 

[shred5]

Some of those ingredients in flourish do not seem like I would want them in my aquarium. Copper, chlorine, phosphate etc.

 

[shred5]

I have been looking online for food grade sodium nitrate and all I can find is lab grade (don’t know enough to know what the difference is). Every time I search food grade, it keeps pulling up curing salt (sodium nitrite). Do you have a recommendation for sourcing?

Lab grade is usually more pure. Sodium nitrate is what you want.

 

[jh2pizza]

What is the goal of dosing Nitrates?

 

[jh2pizza]

What is the goal of dosing Nitrates?

 

[erky]

to keep your corals alive.

 

[shred5]

What is the goal of dosing Nitrates?

It is for those that have extremely low nutrients. Corals like everything need some sort of nitrogen.

Most people in the hobby do not need to do it.

 

[Kurt Grant]

What is the goal of dosing Nitrates?

2 or 5 is the goal for dosing

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I have been looking online for food grade sodium nitrate and all I can find is lab grade (don’t know enough to know what the difference is). Every time I search food grade, it keeps pulling up curing salt (sodium nitrite). Do you have a recommendation for sourcing?

Here's one:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/222600000/sodium-nitrate-8-ounces-fine-powder-996\

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

wait is Stump Remover frowned upon for nitrate?

By the experiences of reefers, it seems fine, but food grade sodium or potassium nitrate reduces concerns for certain unwanted impurities such as heavy metals or from unexpected changes in the stump remover quality.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Lab grade is usually more pure. Sodium nitrate is what you want.

Reagent grade is quality material. I'm not sure "Lab" grade has a specific meaning, but if it lists specifications, that would be good.

 

[McArcher]

Here's one:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/222600000/sodium-nitrate-8-ounces-fine-powder-996\

Thanks Randy.
What is the best time of day to dose? My thoughts were to dose when my fuge light is off so my chaeto doesn’t gobble it up as soon as I put it in. Does that make sense?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Some of those ingredients in flourish do not seem like I would want them in my aquarium. Copper, chlorine, phosphate etc.

Those are not in Flourish nitrogen. It has nitrate and another material lacking a clear explanation which might just be urea.

http://www.seachem.com/flourish-nitrogen.php

Derived from: potassium nitrate, urea (iminium salt)