Nitrate
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Or just go buy a bottle of Vodka:
Vodka Dosing by 'Genetics' and 'Stony_Corals' - Reefkeeping.com
Vodka Dosing by 'Genetics' and 'Stony_Corals' - Reefkeeping.com
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kwandrsn
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I think I'm gonna pass on that... Interesting though but it seems a bit involved in dosing daily and what not. I'm going to do more research it but I don't like adding the idea of adding chemicals more than I have to
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Lots of people do this, or dose vinegar. When done properly it grows bacteria that eats up Nitrates first, then phosphates at a slower rate. I did this for close to 2 years without incident. Easy enough to do, but getting up to the daily dose going by the insctructions can take up to a year, so ya gotta cheat a bit. I was dosing 9mls in the am and 9mls in the pm every day using a childs medicine doser, its really not a big deal. It can be set up on an automated dosing system also.
Adding more rock to your tank and just keep up with the water changes. In time your tank should be maturing to a stable system.
fragmatic
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.....this.....!!!
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kwandrsn
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Ok I paid $55 for 18lbs of live rock with tons of hitchhikers including mussels and a polythoa polyp and a mushroom and also a hermit crab lol
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kwandrsn
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Ok I bought a heavy duty 32 gallon brute trash can and a 200watt heater to mix my saltwater. I done a 12 gallon water change. Before I could only make up a 5 gallon bucket at a time. Well my nitrates went down from 20 to 10. I don't know if I should do another one tomorrow or wait a few days. I have to drain the water down where some of my coral is out of the water I hope this dont hurt anything
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kwandrsn
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Ok as a update I went back to work on the river and now I'm away from the house about 15 hours a day and rarely get a day off. So... it's going to be hard maintaining my tank.
I checked and my nitrates are up to 20 again. So I done a 15 gallon water change. I'm feeding my fish once a day I'm thinking of cutting back to once every other day... Any thoughts?
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I checked and my nitrates are up to 20 again. So I done a 15 gallon water change. I'm feeding my fish once a day I'm thinking of cutting back to once every other day... Any thoughts?
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I only feed every other day. If you were to perform a 50% water change, this would only knock your Nitrate numbers in half.
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I had this same problem when using a API liquid test kit. Mine always read 20 ppm by my next water change. I went out and bought two different test kits and both showed only trace amounts if nitrate. I even tested the same water with all three kits. Only the liquid API kit showed 20 ppm. The other two did not show but trace amount. I think there is a problem with that test kit. I have a 100 g tank with 35 g sum/refug, skimmer, 2500 GPS return and 2 power heads. I also have 150 lbs live rock.
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Yeah I think I'm going to just let it ride at 20 I'll keep up with the water changes but a lfs that only deals with fish and coral says my water is fine when I take them a sample
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