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Everyone’s super happy after a minor water change with some nice reef crystal. Thanks again @mnat for
Coming in clutch, the corals appreciate it. I have dropped my water changes from a 6 gallon water change to a 4 or 5 gallon in attempts to let more nitrates build up. After removing some favias...
Thank you guys, I may buy another dosing unit and test out trying nitrate dosing since my tank is very small and struggle to keep up with nutrients for corals to grow. I throw in reefenergy randomly at different doses and just watch how the algea on a dead coral grows, so it’s very inconsistent
That’s a nice one, I tried one once and it didn’t last at all dried up and detached. Reguardless of all the other corals I can go that one wasn’t one. I need to get my hand on a naturally split tank raised.
In the end, it’s better to just throw them on the rocks and let them encrust and grow on there. They will grow a lot faster instead of battling each other on the frag rack, trust me I know, now my frags are to top heavy to get them to stay on wet rock...
I read a study in r2r that when you ship out water for the icp tests the phosphate numbers would change in the bottle in shipping so I would always take the icp results with a little bit of skepticism.
I throw about 4 ml of reef energy to a 29biocube everyday and my nitrates and phosphates don’t budge at all. But I would assume at some point a a breaking point may be reached and when the levels rise they will rise fast so be careful with it.
It’s amazing the amount of an impact something as simple as sand can have on an aquarium, not only does it colonies thousands of bacteria on each end, it helps bind up phosphates and nitrates, so removing it once a system has gotten used to the bio load, alters it a lot.