Low Nutrients

[brclark82]

55 gal tank, 3 months old

livestock- 2 clowns, 1 YWG and pistol, 1 fairy wrasse, firefish, cleaner shrimp, 2 hermits, 4 larger snails, 4 smaller snails and a tiger conch

No concerns currently but trying to get ready for an anemone and some coral at some point in the future.

2 weeks ago I tested 6.7 dKH, 0.01 Phosphate, 0.7 Nitrate (Hanna testers and double checked with Salifert)

I have done 2x 5 gallon water changes since then.

Today- 6.8 dKH, 0.02 Phosphate, 0.8 Nitrate

I feed usually 3 times a day, pellets for the first 2 and frozen brine for the last. Pretty heavy feedings.

Anything I should be doing to get the nutrients up in prep for some corals in future or just keep an eye.

I have the normal diatom dusting that is common in newer tanks. Very little other algae, there is some hair type algae growing in a couple spots I got the rock work too close to the glass and no can get to it but not much.

Thoughts?

Full tank pink attached for reference

 

[Lavey29]

Seems pretty normal evolution for a new tank. Few more fish will help raise nutrients. I had to double dose neophos and neonitro for multiple weeks to get numbers up when my tank was new.

 

[bushdoc]

As above- more fish