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Dosing ammonia. Yep, you read it right


blasterman

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After being very busy with work and helping run a family business I had to scale back my reef keeping, but have things finagled around to ramp up again. Ive also started an experiment in my high nutrient nano tank thats a bit radical.

 

Whats the biggest problem with rimless frag tanks? Keeping fish from jumping out. Then a buddy of mine who keeps glorious garden tanks and sells rare zoas helped me stumble on a solution. Why bother with fish if you just want coral and dont want to create floor taffy for your cats.

 

Answer; dose ammonia. Currently up to 10 drops daily in a 5gal nano with various paly and zoa colonies. Its a young tank barely a month old and the zoa colonies werent growing well at the lfs store. They are picking up steam quick with ammonia dosing though. Oddly, nitrate levels are less than 10 but its an API kit that needs to be replaced. Ammonia levels dive quick after dosing, so the bio filter is working as intended.

 

My plan is to increase ammo dosing until nitrate levels or algae growth get out of control, and/or zoa growth hits a wall. I also have some zoo colonies in my uln SPS nano as control groups. In any respect, ammo dosing is clearly accelerating zoa growth, but I need a long term metric. Ill keep updates going.

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do you have a CuC going because they will also release ammonia any biological such as fish will actively release ammonia so it is interesting to consider dosing ammonia given the absence of fish in your instance. However idk how great of an idea it would be to dose ammonia in a nano especially 5 gallon if you are at all interested in having any fish ..but the garden idea is cool

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