#nitrates

Hi Smart Reefers, I am getting me **** kicked by high nitrates and phosphates, see log from my Hanna Tester: A little history: I bought an established 150g tank from FB and saved the water, LR and fish. Brought it all home and added about 3/4 of a 5 gallon bucket of the sand from the tank and...

So pretty much I love the look of caulerpa and made an external refugium and put some in, it grew 5 new “leafs” in 24 hours. Before adding it in both my nitrate and phosphate where at 4ppm now both have shot down to zero. Should I dose some nitrate and phosphate?

Hey, my parameters in my 29 gallon tank are a lil high, I started my tank exactly 3 weeks ago and for the last couple of weeks my parameters keep fluctuating back n forth. My Ammonia and Nitrite both keep going from .25ppm then back to .50ppm. My nitrates are high too around 40 ppm. Does that...

My tank is really stressing me out, which I hate because I can't seem to just enjoy it. Tank is 5 months old. I'm having a lot of trouble with nitrite and nitrAte. Nitrates were holding steady at 40, a water change to bring them to 20, and not even a week later, back to 40. So a few weeks ago...

So I have been running a 32 gallon biocube for about a year which has been fairly successful. I had a long and difficult battle with dinos for a few months which I eventually won. I knew that the reason I had the dinos was bottoming out of my nitrates and phosphates which had both reached 0.00...

I need help… I have been fighting high nitrates I feel like FOREVER. I purchased the HR Hanna test kit and found that they were over 150. I completed water changes and system maintenance and brought them down to around 40.84 but they are uncontrollable. I also cannot get my PO to get on the...

I have 0 nitrates, I’m running a fuge with cheato for 5hrs a day and now I’m wondering if I should turn off my Protein Skimmer??? The 75g tank has been running for 2-1/2 months with live rock- 4 clown fish, 1 yellow tank and a few clean up crew, and have a good amount of soft coral. Anythjng I...

i am new to marine fish keeping hobby. And i was researching stuff on the internet on how to do the cycling. Its been around 2 weeks now since i started my “cycle” and my recently recorded levels are quite confusing to what my research is telling me. My ammonia is still up in .25ppm and my...