[eutimio]

Hey guys, I posted this in another forum as well. Was hoping for some extra insight...here is the deal:

My nitrates are always 0. ELOS test
Some of my SPS are a bit faded. I feed the fish once a day, various blends of mysis, scallop, callanus etc that I mixed together; I dose phytoplankton and aminos about 3 times a week.
Chaeto has grown tremendously in the last month but ever since harvesting it stopped growing. Possibly lack of nutrient.

I was wondering, maybe time to dose some nitrates?
I was gonna buy seachem flourish nitrogen and dose until I start to see the levels rise to 5ppm and keep it there with a daily dose.

Ive also read nitrate will be consumed at different rates throughout the week which makes it even more complicated and an extra chore with testing frequently if that’s the case.

What’s your guys opinion ?

Phosphates are 0 as well on ELOS( regular not the pro kit)maybe unreliable kit.
I’m not getting a green or brown algae on the glass at all, I can go for 4-5 days and just get a slight white haze but nothing more.

I was even contemplating taking the chaeto out.
I have a skimmer and use a filter sock, replaced every 3-4 days.
Used to run GAC in reactor but took that offline.
Any help on this matter would be appreciated.
Ive never had to dose nitrates and I wanna get it right the first time.

Tank is 17 gallons, 20 gallon sump.
2 clowns and a lyretail Anthias.
Minimal clean up crew. 5 snails or so.
Dont know if I can add more fish to up the nitrates that way . They’d have to be pretty big to put a dent in the 0 nitrates right?
Maybe a tuxedo urchin? I’ve had one and used to poop a lot lol