nutrients

I’m an intermediate reefer and I have my main display which is a 100 gallon tank sps dominant mixed reef and that tank blooms with healthy corals and full of fish and I have been successful in controlling nutrients and chemistry. Anyways I have a 13.5 gallon tank (fluval evo) I’ve been running...

Hello friends, My 125 has had coral in it for almost a year at this point (coral is light-moderately stocked, 40ish pieces). I have had great success learning on here from other reefers and got my tank dialed in nicely. The one area I haven't been able to get consistent is nutrients...

Going to be setting up a 24 x 24 frag tank. (no SPS) I have a couple questions 1) is it sustainable to have this tank operate without fish? 2) what’s the best way to get enough nutrients in the system?.. use filtration to strip it and use dosing, or would feeding the corals be enough? (setting...

I have homed in my vinegar dosing to 60ml a day. This deals with 6 cubes a day plus some mysis rs flake and spectrum pellets. I tend to feed in the evening and wondering whether this is causing very high nutrients and low the rest of the time. I was spreading it out to 24 times a day through a...

NP-Bacto-Balance essentially supplies nutrients to the corals at the lowest levels right? So, would these levels show in a test kit? Can you explain the process of dialing in my dosage for this product? I'm starting at 0.40 mL for my (40 gallon DT, 20 gallon sump) tank.

I'm currently running a 32 Biocube. Here is livestock: 1 Clownfish (going to be getting a female soon) 1 Snowflake Eel Parameters: Nitrates 34.6 PPM PH 8.1 Phosphate: 0.49 PPM I'm trying to get phosphates down to 0.003 at least. I've added a refugium recently so I think that'll help. I've had...

Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone happens to know what nutrient (PO4 and NO3) levels Than @Tidal Gardens runs in his coral propagation facility. I vaguely remember his phosphate is between 0.1-0.2. And if anyone knows what model of Radion he is using? Blues or Pros? Schedule and intensity...

Hello! Rather new to the hobby here but my tank has been running for just over 6 months. I’ve had coral for almost 3 months. Went through a few different ugly stages already. I thought things were finally calming down where everything was clean again for almost a month and everyone has been...

Hey, I found recent AF product - Anti Phosphate - https://aquaforest.eu/freshwater/products/af-anti-phosphate/ It's relatively light color, so it does not seem to be a ferric hydroxide related as most of reef dedicated products are. I wonder - what could be the ingredient and why isn't it...

Recently got a new 15 gallon tank and just tested after adding zoas and a gsp frag. Noticed they weren’t doing well compared to my 13.5 tank. These are the results. Need help in trying to figure out a solution. Doing a water change now hoping it’ll help. Tank has a filter sock and filter floss...

I've used AF Life Source 2-3 times now according to the instructions. My corals and snails seem to like it, but my fish get very nervous when the mud clouds the water. Clowns go all the way into the anemone, blenny hides and my six-line has a panick attack (jerky movements like he is gasping for...

Hey guys and girls. Any experience on using/dosing food grade calcium carbonate capsules mixed in ro di to act as a flocculant, bind all the degraded stuff and then dose some bacteria product to remove them from the system. Any opinions? Do you believe it will have any adverse effects?

Please share here your preferred method, when it comes to using GFO (Granular Ferric Oxide) . Do you run 24/7, intermittently or never? Leave some details about your system (age of your reef, size of your tank, type of coral, what reactor you run, what you feed, substrate or none) and reason for...

Sixty’s understanding of Nutrient 2.0 1. Introduction 2. Brief description on the difference between Availability and residual nutrients. 3.Identify nutrient limitations under different filtration methods. 3.1. Heterotrophic bacteria as dominant species effect on nutrients and residual. 3.2...

I haven't really seen the topic of nutrition levels in the new tank discussed before. My situation is I am transferring my 5 month old Fluval Flex 9 gallon with one fish, clean up crew and corals to a Red Sea Reefer 170 that's been running for a week to let the sump stabilize and to get familiar...

I see a trend towards people using lanthanum products to control PO4 these days, however I had a bad experience the one time I tried using Phosphate-E, and never could get a refugium dialed in... So I have stuck to old-school GFO in a reactor... What methods are you currently employing to...

Anyone ever test their salt water diluted in their garden? I know of many plants that are in constant need of the same nutrients that is in the water we have left over from the changes.

I recently created a chaeto reactor for my Biocube. The chaeto is just starting to grow and has made me more comfortable feeding my fish and adding more to my tank. I currently have the lighting 12/12hr opposite the lighting of my display tank. It has been so efficient at reducing nutrients that...

Hi all, So I'm thought I might grab a few gallons of Pacific Ocean water to add to my tank over time. I have a 150g tank using Instant Ocean reef crystals. The water won't be taken near a marina or any known pollutant type areas. Has anyone had experience supplementing their tank in this...

Hello, I am currently battling prorocentrum dinos and am making solid progress. I have a forest of GHA now, but it is now becoming problematic. It is housing stray dinos in it, while also suffocating my Xenia. Even though it is a competitor for the dinos, it is also a major nuisance. I want to...

Afternoon all, My tank is 3 years old and up until recently I have always had high nutrient issues, which I've thrown the kitchen sink at with no lasting success until recently. I apparently hit the magic recipe or my tank finally reached stability and my tank was looking really. For the first...

Umm...So I went to clean my skimmer sponge(outlet) the other day and noticed 2 or 3 small white clams. Does this mean something? Should I fix something? Or am I ok? They are white and about 1/4" wide. Tank is a almost 2 months old.

I am having a hard time keeping my nutrients up while dosing Tropic Marine All-For-Reef (AFR). I really like the convenience of having to dose only one supplement, however now I dose NeoNitro and NeoPhos on top of AFR. Do you struggle to keep your nutrients up while dosing AFR? Please share...

I was wondering, do you need to add some kind of movement to the liquid in dosing containers? Like an air-stone? I was just thinking after time maybe things separate and so could be dosing concentrated amounts.

Hi, I currently have a large mixed reef system (around 300 gallons) which is currently being monitored by my apex trident (monitoring pH, salinity, ALK, CA, MG). I am just starting to get into SPS, and therefore want to start monitoring phosphate, nitrite, and nitrate levels more closely. The...