I have been in the hobby for 10 years now. I have been battling nitrates since I moved into our new house which has well water. I initially thought that I grew out of the Reefer 250 so I upgraded to a 120 display and a 35 gallon sump. Still have nitrates around 100. The new tank has been up and running for 2 months now. Every two weeks I do a 20% water change. I have a Red Sea Reef Mat 1200, a Clear Water Scrubber, an OCTO 150sss skimmer, bio pellets, 2 MP 40’s, and a Vectra L2. 2-inch-thick sand bed. 150 lbs of live rock. All corals and fish look great. I even have hard coral that is growing.
Aqua spin test this weekend at LFS produced the following results 0 ammonia, 100 nitrate, 0 nitrite, 0 PO. Retested on Hanna HR Nitrate and blinking at me above 75.
Tested my tap water at the LFS on an aqua spin freshwater test and 0 ammonia, 1 nitrate, 0 nitrite, 0 PO. Also tested the salt bucket which houses my fresh saltwater made by Reef Crystals and found .07 Ammonia, 2 nitrate, 0 nitrite, 0 PO.
I have a 9 stage (yes 6 DI canisters) which produces 0 TDS.
I have a total of 7 fish- 2 cardinals, 3 tangs, 2 nemos.
I feed pellets- once every other day.
Any ideas why I continue to have nitrate problems?
Aqua spin test this weekend at LFS produced the following results 0 ammonia, 100 nitrate, 0 nitrite, 0 PO. Retested on Hanna HR Nitrate and blinking at me above 75.
Tested my tap water at the LFS on an aqua spin freshwater test and 0 ammonia, 1 nitrate, 0 nitrite, 0 PO. Also tested the salt bucket which houses my fresh saltwater made by Reef Crystals and found .07 Ammonia, 2 nitrate, 0 nitrite, 0 PO.
I have a 9 stage (yes 6 DI canisters) which produces 0 TDS.
I have a total of 7 fish- 2 cardinals, 3 tangs, 2 nemos.
I feed pellets- once every other day.
Any ideas why I continue to have nitrate problems?