Thanks @Court_Appointed_Hypeman and @Randy Holmes-Farley for the update and input.
Anything seen as cheerleading in my earlier post only comes from me finding someone (@Court_Appointed_Hypeman) reporting a similar experience regarding the same inorganic Nitrate flatline that I encountered when starting with Tropic Marin NP products (and the hope that I could glean from the experience).
Having zero detectable Nitrate is actually alarming to me, especially when one of the products that Tropic Marin provides to presumably increase Nitrate, "Plus-NP," has, so far, failed to increase measurable Nitrate for me.
That said, the carbon dosing aspect of using NP is a personal paradigm shift for me, so I wanted to do a reality check about what I really should or should not be doing about managing Nitrogen compounds in my reef tank.
Thanks to various posts about the subject (especially from @Randy Holmes-Farley), I finally feel equipped to set and maintain a realistic inorganic Nitrate range for my tank.
Anything seen as cheerleading in my earlier post only comes from me finding someone (@Court_Appointed_Hypeman) reporting a similar experience regarding the same inorganic Nitrate flatline that I encountered when starting with Tropic Marin NP products (and the hope that I could glean from the experience).
Having zero detectable Nitrate is actually alarming to me, especially when one of the products that Tropic Marin provides to presumably increase Nitrate, "Plus-NP," has, so far, failed to increase measurable Nitrate for me.
That said, the carbon dosing aspect of using NP is a personal paradigm shift for me, so I wanted to do a reality check about what I really should or should not be doing about managing Nitrogen compounds in my reef tank.
Thanks to various posts about the subject (especially from @Randy Holmes-Farley), I finally feel equipped to set and maintain a realistic inorganic Nitrate range for my tank.