They're pretty low around 5ish. I’ve got about 2 little buckets of matrix in the sump.
Chapter 3: 150g SCA Tank
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Well now get that tank loaded up with coral!
Not at his phosphate levels. Thats cray cray
Taking donations...
Well maybe one cray. Definitely not two crays
LPS seem to be doing ok at .1 phosphates so far. Ideally, I'd like it to by closer to .05 but I've nuked a tank before using lanthanum so I am being a bit overly cautious
Still can’t grow any corals in this tank beyond leathers and Xenia. Zoas just melt
I’ve stopped dripping lanthinum and the PO4 bounces around a lot but stays under .1. Nitrates are pretty low >10ish
I’m doubling down boys…
I’ve stopped dripping lanthinum and the PO4 bounces around a lot but stays under .1. Nitrates are pretty low >10ish
I’m doubling down boys…
Thats a big tank!!
25 lb
Holy smokes you were right @civics14 ...apparently I haven't been doing these api nitrate test correctly (shaking the 2nd bottle).
Long story short - my nitrates are about 80 in the big tank and north of 100 in my frag tank.
Well...that explains a lot.
how goes the calcium reactor set up tho? I had high nitrates as well in the past, then I started DIY NoPox and did it very slow over the course of several months. It was crazy, it was stuck at 50+ and like nothing was happening, then literally within 48 hours it went from 50+ down to zero. Corals did not like it, several turned grey.
calrx is still sitting next to the tank. everytime i start looking at it something invariably comes up.
my house has been a revolving hotel for the past month or so with family flying in and out...hopefully it slows down
So when are you going to get a set of real test kits??
I could be wrong but I’ve always thought that ballpark numbers were ok for nitrates. Somewhere between 10-20 is good for me but if the tube is red…whoopsie
I just hate API
I would suggest hanna for the big ones like phosphate. Im not sure its possible to have high nitrate without also having high phosphate.
Totally dry rock, like you mentioned, can take years to stop leaching.
Oh boy …
Looks like Dino’s. Do you have a UV?
