Zero nitrates?

[A sea K]

I wouldn’t add any more of the aminos

Not questioning but want to know why you would discourage the amino's? I was hoping the amino's would add to the nutrient load. I have decided to increase my reef chili/reef roid feeding from once weekly to three times a week and had planned to dose the amino's at three times a week (holding off on that for the moment). Fish load is quite small so it will be difficult to add much more and I also removed the marine pure block earlier today.

 

[User1]

Your current values are fine (3 ppm nitrate and 0.07 ppm phosphate) and I cannot see raising them will reduce cyano.

I'm not actually aware/convinced that raisng nutrients is ever a solution for cyano. Dinos, yes, not cyano.

Interesting side note my ICP test came back from ATI and maybe I had the Nyos results a bit off in the color chart. I don't think it is grossly high thought. Nitrate 6.65 mg/l and phosphate reporting 0.08 mg/l. My phosphate or I should say Hanna's checker was close. My reading on nyos was off I guess