nitrates

  1. S

    Acros reacting to nitrate dosing — advice on stabilizing?

    I’m looking for some guidance from experienced SPS keepers. I’ve had the same Acro corals (Bill Murray, Vivid Confetti, etc.) for over a year. They’ve been stable with very slow growth and encrusting, but I’ve always felt they looked a bit pale when viewed without an orange filter, especially...
  2. J

    Slowly rising Phosphates, unsure of cause

    A quick rundown of tank and other maintenance info: I have a 32.5 gallon fluval flex, stock is 2 clownfish, starry blenny, purple firefish, yellow watchman goby, orange spotted goby, and a royal gramma. Also have a handful of snails and hermits. I have a handful of corals as well that are all...
  3. GunnarH

    Best food for automatic feeder that doesn't send nitrates through the roof?

    Hi, I'm looking for food that's suitable for a Hydros WiFi Feeder (similar to the Eheim feeder). The food should eventually sink, and not be a nitrate bomb. Any recommendations?
  4. H

    Dosing Neo Nitro for Dinos

    Hello Everyone i got a bad case of dinos due to my nutrients bottoming out. I Did 3 day blackout while started to dose Neo Nitro and Neo Phos. I have been dosing 0.5ml of each everyday for over a week. Currently my Nitrates are 9.0 and Phos is 0.29 Dinos came back and some sludge looking thing...
  5. H

    Dosing Neo nitro killed yellow tang?

    Hello everyone, any one has heard of fish dying by dosing Neo Nitro and Neo Phos?! My 3 year old tank had a case of Dinos due to 0 nitrates and 0 Phosphates. I did a blackout method and dosed 5 ml of Neo Nitro, and Neo Phos to a 125 gallon system. I noticed the water got really cloudy upon the...
  6. E

    Aquarium Controller Testing Dry Goods Trident NP for sale

    Near new Trident NP. Works well for me. Comes with original box. No reagents. Ships for 25 dollars. Nutrients have been very stable on my aquarium, so I will part with this trident, and let someone else use it.
  7. S

    Nitrates higher than phosphates

    Hi all. Just after a little bit of advice please. So my latest tank (Red Sea 350) I started from scratch with new dry tock, live sand and a bacteria start potion. It's been setup for around 4 weeks now and has a pair of maroon clowns and a tang along with a cleanup crew of all sorts. My...
  8. T

    Ready to give up… please help with nitrates and phos

    I have had a FOWLR tank for a few years… I recently just started adding corals. Only 3 so far. I was dealing with high phos so I added chemi pure elite and that took it down to 0.10 and I stopped using it. A couple of days ago I rescaped my tank. Broke down the live rock and just changed how...
  9. S

    Live rock clean up

    Hi all. Long story short... I bought some cruddy USED LR years ago, jet washed and scrubbed all the algae and mess off of it, soaked it in RO and then setup a tank. Never had the best results and then when I moved house I let it dry out thinking it would kill all the nitrates and phosphates with...
  10. crappie

    Will nitrate at 0 cause birdsnest to die?

    I have several corals in my 40 breeder and after moving a couple corals I have a birds nest that is struggling. Everything else is doing fine. My parameters all seem fine except my nitrates are stuck at 0 and have been forever. If I feed super heavy I can get them to register but are still under...
  11. ajtomase

    Algae Turf Scrubber or Roller Filter?

    I'm looking to get either a roller filter, or an algae turf scrubber to help control phosphates and nitrates (don't want refugium, use GFO/Rowaphos, a bio pellet reactor, or NOPOX). Who has a favorite that won't bottom out nutrients?
  12. jbonez_

    Raising Alkalinity

    Can anyone give me advice what I should do? My Alkalinity keeps dropping every week, I want to put some softy corals in my tank eventually but I cannot get my Alkalinity to stabilize at all and I can't bring my pH up to 8.3 like I'd like, I have a 20g tank with two clowns and YWG. I've also...
  13. jbonez_

    Water change

    I currently have a 20g IM AIO fully cycled for about a month now, total water volume is 14.5g. I've been currently been doing four gallon water changes weekly because my Nitrates were tad high. Last Sunday I did my normal water change and tested today and I am showing zero nitrates now. Would be...
  14. jbonez_

    Nitrite & Nitrate

    Nitrites are reading 1.0ppm and Nitrates 20ppm, would a larger water change help lower or should I do something different? I had the same readings the past two weeks.
  15. jbonez_

    Nitrite & Nitrate

    Nitrites are reading 1.0ppm and Nitrates 20ppm, would a larger water change help lower or should I do something different? I had the same readings the past two weeks.
  16. naterealbig

    Filters Dry Rock Media ~ 5 Gallons Seachem Matrix Denitrification Media

    Used about 1.5 gallons in my previous systems and loved it. I'm being super-lazy on my current builds, and don't feel like setting up a reactor. Happy to ship for selling price + actual shipping cost. DM me your zip for estimate.
  17. J

    Effects of low nitrates

    I have an established tank that’s about 2 years. I noticed LPS has been receding but my SPS is taken off. I finally did some testing and I realized my nitrates was undetectable and now I started dosing for a few days now. What are the bad effects of having low nitrates ?
  18. M

    NO3 and PO4 are really cause algae?

    Hi! Now I continue to study marine aquarium and there is some misunderstanding, how many nitrates and phosphates should I have? I want to contain a mixed reef: simple SPS, LPS, zoanthuses and discoactinias. Some say that it is necessary to keep NO3 and PO4 at 5 and 0.1, respectively, but others...
  19. jandakay

    Sinularia Shriveled & Drooped over

    Good afternoon, I have a 22 gal long tank, with a toadstool, singularia, kenya tree, frogspawn, derasa clam, and a pulsing xenia. The tank is 11 months old. My biggest worry is my Sinularia coral. I recently went on a 3 week long TDY to florida, and had my mom take care of my tank while I was...
  20. phildoingthings

    High Nitrate Mixed Reef 50-70ppm

    Hey all, Been running a RS Reefer 250 G2 for about a year now. Pretty much self-sustaining at this point...I do small 5 gallon water changes maybe once or two times a month. I'm a believer in "if it isn't broke don't fix it". I have a huge colony of GSP that is thriving, as well as a few...
  21. M

    Budget external refugium, nitrates did what!?

    Ok after struggling with high to me nitrates at 15ppm , phosphate was 0.05. I decided to try ABIT of a makeshift fuge. Unfortunately my sump only has two chambers so having it in the sump wasn't an option, my tank is 25gallon so opted with a 10litre fuge. I have a 400lph pump in the sump moving...
  22. vienna

    Nitrate readings.

    I have both Hanna & API test kits. Nitrate for API is 10 ppm Hanna low range checker is 2.38. Are these good readings?
  23. alexmara76

    Dosing vinegar

    Hi reefers, I’ve started dosing vinegar 2 weeks ago to reduce my 40ppm nitrates (150 gallons tank + sump ) , following the dosing chart found on the forum , I’m putting directly the vinegar mixed with water in the return pump section , 3 times a day 10 ml , 10 ml and 5 ml . The nitrates...
  24. D

    California Aquariums Dry Goods Algae Scrubber

    Hello I have the RAIN 4 pole mount waterfall algae scrubber for sale. The pole mount is used, however the DOM and the gem lights (7 in total) are brand new. Asking for $500 shipped.
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  25. DakotahSteel

    Reefmat working too well?

    Hey everyone, I’ve had a RS 1200 reefmat since the tank was wet back in July. Ever since I’ve been battling nonexistent nitrates and phosphates. When I say nonexistent I truly mean zero and that’s with a medium sized fish load and multiple feedings per day. I started to dose for nitrates about...
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