Which nitrate product

[shrimped]

I have tried a rather direct approach to my 30g home office tank with low nitrates, which I believe is one of the causes of a dinoflagellate problem. My 75 g living room DT has had some issues with high nitrates, so I have been dong my water changes from the 75 to the 30 and 30 down the drain. After the first few WC (~5-6 gallons) the nitrates in the 30 dropped back to unmeasurable in a day or so. A larger WC seemed to do the trick for getting a baseline level of nitrates to get the 30 on track.

Just a different approach that was an interesting experiment.

Then last week I made a major dosing error in the 75, so I have a different problem to deal with there....

dang i hope your nitrate issues stabilizes again. My nitrates dropped from 7ppm to 1ppm in 2 weeks. nothing changed, no water changes either.

 

[JohnMzreef]

I was recently shocked to find my nitrates at 1 ppm. I started dosing the Brightwell product and it works nicely although the bottle kinda goes fast. I used their recommendation to target 3 ppm. All my corals look better.
As a nice side effect my phosphates have dropped and I stopped running gfo.
I am going to try dosing the greenleaf KNO3 which I have mixed at a strength of 50 g to 1 liter of ro water. Someone correct me if I am wrong but this should be a strength similar to the Brightwell product.

 

[shrimped]

sometimes i wish there was a reliable fail-safe product that would dose different liquid ions and elements whenever it detects it to be lower than the programmed, desired number. our lives would be much easier lol