Zero, Zero Or Not?
I'm wondering how many out there either do, try to, or don't worry that much on running their tanks at zero phosphates and zero nitrates.
My previous Cade never ran zero/zero and I considered it to be quite healthy.
My current tank is running zero/zero at the moment and I'm wondering if maybe it's too clean??
I've found some corals that I had in the Cade aren't doing as quite as well in the current tank.
Last week I removed my reactor with the All In One pellets due to a number of comments that they were (in some cases) causing bad outcomes. Although I never seemed to have any problems with them, I did notice there to be a reasonable amount of white scum building up in the sump.
I still run NoPoX (have for ages) and have now decide to run that alone - along with my big block of Marine Pure.
I'll be interested to see if the NoPoX alone can get it to, and maintain it, at the levels I want.
After 3 years I decide to read the Red Sea instructions for NoPoX dosing a bit more carefully and noted that they recommend to back off the dosing if the tank gets to zero/zero.
I quote "make sure that the nitrate and phosphate levels do not drop below the desired levels of NO3 = 0.25, PO4 = 0.02".
So what's the general opinion?
My previous Cade never ran zero/zero and I considered it to be quite healthy.
My current tank is running zero/zero at the moment and I'm wondering if maybe it's too clean??
I've found some corals that I had in the Cade aren't doing as quite as well in the current tank.
Last week I removed my reactor with the All In One pellets due to a number of comments that they were (in some cases) causing bad outcomes. Although I never seemed to have any problems with them, I did notice there to be a reasonable amount of white scum building up in the sump.
I still run NoPoX (have for ages) and have now decide to run that alone - along with my big block of Marine Pure.
I'll be interested to see if the NoPoX alone can get it to, and maintain it, at the levels I want.
After 3 years I decide to read the Red Sea instructions for NoPoX dosing a bit more carefully and noted that they recommend to back off the dosing if the tank gets to zero/zero.
I quote "make sure that the nitrate and phosphate levels do not drop below the desired levels of NO3 = 0.25, PO4 = 0.02".
So what's the general opinion?