I Swore I Would Never Use It, But...

 

Whenever anyone talked about Red Sea's NoPox, it was always to say how dosing it stripped their tanks of nutrients and ultimately caused trouble with their corals. But I was having a nitrate issue in my 29G cube soft coral reef, and water changes weren't helping. I do not overfeed my fish or corals, I'm extremely careful. I unplug my canister filter while there is any scrap of food visible in the water. I decided to research how NoPox actually worked and once I understood the science of it, I realized it might be the help I needed. So i bought some, and started adding it manually to my tank at 9:00 p.m. each evening. I had to pay very very close attention to what it was doing in my tank while using it, and make adjustments as things changed. While all that was going on, I completed the rest of my drastic change in filtration. So I no longer have any filter floss or sponges in my canister filter, only live rock rubble and Seachem Matrix. Here's what happened....