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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reefluvrr" data-source="post: 11351930" data-attributes="member: 72563"><p>Hi [USER=124828]@Kenneth Wingerter[/USER] </p><p></p><p>I am running a sumpless 13 gallon reef tank mainly with mushrooms, but there are couple acan LPS and one green gonipora LPS.</p><p></p><p>I have this tank up and running since January of this year. I used live rock from my main reef tank and live sand as well on day one for this tank.  I seeded this tank with copepods and it has been doing very well since day one.</p><p></p><p>I have 0 Nitrate in this tank, and I do not know if I have enough Nitrogen source from my 4 fishes in the tank.</p><p>However, my PO4 is through the roof at 0.68 in this tank.</p><p></p><p>There is green algae which I have to scrape off the glass almost daily.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Can I just dose PNS PROBIO into this tank and expect my PO4 to drop without adding NO3?  </p><p></p><p>As you have mentioned in your youtube videos. Corals don't use NO3 as much as other sources of Nitrogen such as ammonium.</p><p>Hans Werner at Tropic Marin also doesn't care for dosing NO3.</p><p></p><p>Therefore I am hoping I can reduce my PO4 with PNS ProBio  utilizing fish waste such as ammonium, urea, etc.</p><p></p><p>Can you share your thoughts on this and help possibly explain the mechanism for it?</p><p></p><p>Thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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