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I'm following your thread because I have been thinking about dosing no3 for a while now because I have never tested anything but zero on my salifert nitrate kit. I register a little po4 on my Hanna ulr, it's usually between 0 & .01 with the highest reading being .02. All my coral do ok & grow but I think they could have better color, polyp extension & grow a little faster. I do have some hair algea in the tank so I know there has to be some nutrients but I even tested 0 on nitrates before any hair algea popped up. I used to only get a 0 reading on po4 & the hair algea started showing up about the same time a little po4 started to register on the test.
Anyways I'm no expert, I'm sure someone else will chime in on the subject but I would be careful raising your alk & if u decide to do it very slowly. Even though your dosing no3 & po4 I would still consider your tank a low nutrient tank. I'm not sure what is really considered low or high nutrients but personally I consider anything less then about 10 ppm no3 & .1 po4 to be low nutrients.
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