Dosing nitrate? Or have low N? Try this instead...

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Enough people have been dosing ammonia for long enough that I think the result is clear: dosing ammonia can give better results without any harm than dosing nitrate.

It's cheap, although you may need a dosing pump unless you do multiple manual doses/day.

Time to stop worrying about keeping ammonia low. Time to start dosing it if nitrate is lower than a few ppm, even up to 10 ppm.

This has recipes and folks experiences for the past year:

DIY Ammonia dosing for low nitrate systems

Some reef aquaria have chronic low nitrogen availability. One indicator is very low nitrate. Nitrate dosing is a fine remedy, but it is possible that ammonia dosing may be more beneficial for some organisms since ammonia can be energetically easier to assimilate than is nitrate. For this...

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[SantaMonica]

Nice, have not thought about it before. Could be useful for low-N high-P tanks.