dosing

Has anyone ever had to dose nitrates?? If so what have you used I am going to experiment with KNO3 potassium nitrate. My nitrates are at zero due to alot of alge in my sump but my phosphates are high so I want to add nitrate to give stuff nitrate to grow and hopefully combat my phosphates at the...

With the expo coming up and me "accidentally" spending some funds I would like to go over dosing again. Keeping in mind I focus mainly on SPS... I have been dosing top-off with kalk solution. Now I do this manually with a gallon a night in a 40 breeder with about 55 gallons total water volume. I...

Last night I was testing my Alk dosing pump to see that it was pumping, there were air bubbles in the tubing, and I wasn't sure. I moved it off a timed outlet on my RKE to a static ON outlet. Forgot about it and went to bed last. Came home today to a super cloudy tank. I promptly did about a...

Hey everyone, I'm new to this site and live in the Maplewood area. This is my first post and I was just wondering about how to dose my tank to keep my nutrients normal with an ats so I can reduce my water changes to very little per month. I Just upgraded from a 75 gallon tank to a 180 gallon...

I have a quick question... Can feeding a tank with phytoplankton cause a nitrate and/or phosphate buildup? Or can it fuel an algal bloom? Or any other bad outcomes? I have a reef with all sorts of corals. My dad picked some up and I'm not sure if I should use it or not. I know it's for feeding...