Recently my Nitrates have been going lower and lower, while my Phosphates just increase. I am not really sure what would be causing this. I would love to learn more about how Phosphates and Nitrates are inversely related.
Ive been feeding Rods Food + Mysis daily. I made a few other posts about this, and was recommended it could be the rods food, so now I am just switching mysis. Ive been testing every few days and here's been my results:
1.5 weeks ago - Nitrate .5ppm / Phosphate 1.2ppm
1 week ago - Nitrate . 3ppm / Phosphate 1.3ppm
Yesterday - Nitrate .0ppm / Phosphate 1.35ppm
I do a 50% water change every other week. I run no filtration except a bunch of chaeto in the back running for like 10 hours. I am scared to change the macro setting because if I lower lights, the Nitrate will just go down even more. I currently bought some PHOSGUARD in hopes to slowly lower Phosphates, and stabilizing nitrates.
Ive been feeding Rods Food + Mysis daily. I made a few other posts about this, and was recommended it could be the rods food, so now I am just switching mysis. Ive been testing every few days and here's been my results:
1.5 weeks ago - Nitrate .5ppm / Phosphate 1.2ppm
1 week ago - Nitrate . 3ppm / Phosphate 1.3ppm
Yesterday - Nitrate .0ppm / Phosphate 1.35ppm
I do a 50% water change every other week. I run no filtration except a bunch of chaeto in the back running for like 10 hours. I am scared to change the macro setting because if I lower lights, the Nitrate will just go down even more. I currently bought some PHOSGUARD in hopes to slowly lower Phosphates, and stabilizing nitrates.