Nitrate SPIKE!!!!!!

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by 11purewater

What died? or where's the dead spot in your tank.

Nothing died. Elegance and gorg's death were imminent (irrelevant with the nitrate). The rainbow paly didn't open since I got it like few days back and today I noticed infection so took it out.

Things are thriving but I noticed my acans are a bit shrunk (best indicator for nitrate) and montis are a bit white. Nitrate!

I don't think dead spot is of any issue since I have fairly low "rock blocked" places in the tank. The chaeto always sucked up nitrate real good (GSP, xenia, mushroom) don't grow but thrive in my tank. Last few days, I noticed my mushrooms doing great (duh!). I even checked whether the chaeto is dying and its all green and grew significantly since the last trim. In the last few days, I fed my tank HEAVILY! And my heavily, I mean 3 full meals for the fishes (flakes + cylop + something else like brine or mysis) and fed my corals heavily (mix of snow + cylop + brine + mysis). That's my story.

I am guessing the food is the real criminal over here.