So i just stumbled upon a video on youtube about why nitrates and phosphates are good for the corals in your tank and it made me realise it could be true. My tank had high nitrates like really high above 80. My corals were doing not so well in that range so i started doing alot of water changes to get it down. When i was at 30ppm nitrate my corals were opening up again and looking all good so i went to the lfs and saw they had a deal on some orange btas. I really wanted one but i had nitrates at 30ppm still so i thought nah i should wait. But the owner of the lfs told me that nitrates are needed to keep stuff healthy too so having it too low or undetected isnt that good and that if i get the nem now i will be fine. So i did. It was doing surprisingly well for 6 weeks. But then as i did my weekly water changes, my nitrates dropped to 0.2 and i noticed that the corals especially the lps weren’t opening up as big as usual and my anemone has started to lose size and some colour.
So now im just wondering if anyone has had this happen to them. Corals and anemone doing good with nitrates 20-30 but doing bad at 0-5ppm nitrates. My tank has been at 0.2ppm for a month now and my corals and anemone aren’t looking as good as they used too compared to when i had some nitrates.
Thoughts on this?
So now im just wondering if anyone has had this happen to them. Corals and anemone doing good with nitrates 20-30 but doing bad at 0-5ppm nitrates. My tank has been at 0.2ppm for a month now and my corals and anemone aren’t looking as good as they used too compared to when i had some nitrates.
Thoughts on this?