Reefer James
Aquarium Advice Freak
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Originally Posted by Reefer James
Also my saltwater tanks are extremely high nutrient, above 100 nitrate and 1ppm phosphate. Theres not an issue with ich.. My fish are healthy
Then you are the one out of a thousand reefers that have a healthy tank with very high nitrate levels.
You need to understand how important nutrients are for corals... I am convinced that nutrients in aquaria is not a level that needs to be kept low unless you're look for 100% growth speed. But then you'd have a 6500K bulb and the corals would be brown. But hey they'd grow.
Checkout Richard Ross at MACNA 2014 talk about phosphates. He's a pretty smart guy who is in charge of the 212,000 gallon coral reef aquarium.... He runs nutrients even higher than me...
Will you sacrifice growth with higher nutrients yes. But I do not need more growth. I already dose over 50ppm Calcium a day and have to frag monthly to avoid touching corals... My corals grow quite quickly...
People will go 6 months to a year or more without adding any new fish and then suddenly something happens to stress fish out and there's suddenly a huge ich outbreak. Ich can be controlled with healthy conditions (I do the same myself with my reef tank) but due to the differences with freshwater Ich this is a very very rare occurrence. Ich will not go away consistently without treatment and that's just a fact that cannot be avoided.
So keeping healthy conditions works. Glad we can agree ......