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Originally Posted by Uncle99
You say you have zero nitrate and phosphate. That will starve them.
Nitrate should be 2-5ppm, but not exceed 10 ppm
Phosphate should be .02-.04.
They need these nutrients to grow flesh, the Skelton comes from the calcification process
In essence, your water to TOO clean!
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I'd wish that's true. I kinda take this API test kit results with a grain of salt - based from what I have read online where people are not getting 100% accurate results. I ordered the Hanna test kits for another look and the Triton for a much accurate result.
The reason why I doubt I really have zero phosphate and nitrate is I see my chaeto and red ogo growing and I have some bad algae growing as well. My zoanthids have grown from 5 heads to 11 heads for the past two weeks I think.Some of my encrusting corals have encrusted their plugs (not dramatically though)
On a differenr note, I dipped the Lobo in an Iodine solution based on the product's directions. I can see the swelling of the white parts have lessen and as soon as I dropped the Lobo to my DT his 4 inches tentacles suddenly started stinging nearby corals as if he got mad for being pulled out.
I am still observing him. I am a heavy feeder so I really doubt I have zero Phosphates and Nitrates although the test shows i have zero (the visual chart is very tricky). One of the stuff I feed my corals is the Reed Roids which has a notorious side effect of spiking the water with nitrates and phosphates (if I remember).
I feed phyto in the morning and evening everyday. I feed mysis, hikari pellets, and ocean nutrition pellets a lot for the fishes every day as well. I give reef roids 3x to 4x per week.