DexterKarin
Community Member
Just wanted a bit of support I guess. I have had undetectable nitrate for some time now and am super nervous about the whole bottoming out nutrients and dinos phenomenon.
Quick Background: 13.5 gallon evo cycled 12/30/23. Dr Tims, Dry rock, caribsea live sand. Two clowns who 3 weeks later got ich/velvet. Removed for treatment (success) into hospital tank and evo had hermit crabs and snails and corals. Will go back in next week.
Testing: Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0 Ph 8.2, Alk varies 7-8.5, Mag 1470, Cal 500 Phosphate came down from high to last reading .07.
This is what I did. Using an ammonia calculator and reading more about Dr, Tim's ammonium chloride, I put .4 ml in the tank and got readings of 0.5 ppm ammonia last night. This morning, ammonia is 0, nitrite 0.05 and nitrate detectable somewhere between 0-1, probably close to 0. (Using red sea tests).
Plan is to put in .2 ml ammonia chloride in AM and PM until nitrate is clearly 1-2 and until fish go back in which now are two small clowns.
Does that sounds reasonable?
Thank you for any thoughts.
Quick Background: 13.5 gallon evo cycled 12/30/23. Dr Tims, Dry rock, caribsea live sand. Two clowns who 3 weeks later got ich/velvet. Removed for treatment (success) into hospital tank and evo had hermit crabs and snails and corals. Will go back in next week.
Testing: Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0 Ph 8.2, Alk varies 7-8.5, Mag 1470, Cal 500 Phosphate came down from high to last reading .07.
This is what I did. Using an ammonia calculator and reading more about Dr, Tim's ammonium chloride, I put .4 ml in the tank and got readings of 0.5 ppm ammonia last night. This morning, ammonia is 0, nitrite 0.05 and nitrate detectable somewhere between 0-1, probably close to 0. (Using red sea tests).
Plan is to put in .2 ml ammonia chloride in AM and PM until nitrate is clearly 1-2 and until fish go back in which now are two small clowns.
Does that sounds reasonable?
Thank you for any thoughts.
