Bit Of Help I Think I Thought Too Hard
So basically I thought too hard now I'm too far down the rabbit hole and and confused myself
I've been reading a lot up on Carbon dosing slin said I should try Zeobak and Zeostart so looking at picking some up after my holiday just going to let the tank cruise until I can spend some more time on it.
Just after reading through stuff like this the bacteria seems to eat up the nitrate and phosphate, but using more nitrate than phosphate. So what happens when it runs out of Nitrate to eat?? I guess the phosphate just sits there and the balance keeps getting worse
The question is would it be better to then dose a phosphate remover or dose KNO3 to raise nitrates to give the bacteria some more food?
I've been following the ultimate aquacare guys on facebook and they're getting a bit of a following going of people using their phosphate remover so i was leaning towards that option. But then maybe that would be more likely to strip my whole system, instead of dosing KNO3
Probably the same risk either way but just 2 different ways to get the same result
I've been reading a lot up on Carbon dosing slin said I should try Zeobak and Zeostart so looking at picking some up after my holiday just going to let the tank cruise until I can spend some more time on it.
Just after reading through stuff like this the bacteria seems to eat up the nitrate and phosphate, but using more nitrate than phosphate. So what happens when it runs out of Nitrate to eat?? I guess the phosphate just sits there and the balance keeps getting worse
The question is would it be better to then dose a phosphate remover or dose KNO3 to raise nitrates to give the bacteria some more food?
I've been following the ultimate aquacare guys on facebook and they're getting a bit of a following going of people using their phosphate remover so i was leaning towards that option. But then maybe that would be more likely to strip my whole system, instead of dosing KNO3
Probably the same risk either way but just 2 different ways to get the same result