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I am having the same issue with all of my tanks, one reads 76. Biopellets act VERY slow, so I got a Tunze macro algae reactor. It doesn’t spin chaeto very well but it seems to be working for me.
 
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Yeah I had a algae scrubber going but all it was generating was a slimy algae so I shut it down about 2 weeks ago just to see what happens.
 

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Thank you for your help I will let you know how this works out
I know it's only been a week for you, but curious if you followed the advice and how it's going? I'm in the same boat as you. My nitrates hang in the 50-60ppm range, and I have no phosphates. Hit a wall with bringing nitrates down and vodka dosing the last 3 weeks hasn't helped, but per my thread I started last night, I was told by several people that vodka dosing doesn't work w/out phosphates. I need to raise them just like you, so I wanted to see what you saw if anything. Thanks, and good luck!
 
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I haven't tested for nitrates lately but I was given information on using sodium phosphate dibasic got off of Amazon it worked great to raise phosphate so I am waiting to test for nitrates just be careful when using the sodium I miscalculated the amount to use so use careful
 

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