Hello everyone, I started this great hobby around 6 months ago, bought a 20 gallon (96 liters) tank and did the proper cycling for 2 months adding bacteria once a week until it was cycled. One recurring problem I've had since forever are high nitrates (no3).
My current stocking list in the tank is as follows:
I feed my fish frozed mysis twice a week, and a algae 3 or something, both from tropical (brand). I haven't dosed with anything for corals yet, I add 5ml on wed of all-for-reef, and I added some calcium as I had really low calcium. I do weekly water changes of 10% and test my parameters before the water changes with Salifert.
All corals/fish/invertebrates are doing extremely well, all polyps open perfectly fine, perfect growth, 0 algae problems. But still the nitrate problem bugs me a lot.
The current problem I'm having is my insane amount of nitrates. I feed my fish really small portions once a day, cleaned the sandbed and everything and still 0 luck. There is no way of lowering them.
Attached down here are the measurements, 21/8/22 is missing the no3 value because I didn't have more tests for it I had to buy a new one.
Also a picture of my tank, it is not up to date I added more stuff lately but its the only I could find.
My current stocking list in the tank is as follows:
2 clownfish
1 blue cleaner wrasse
1 cleaner shrimp - 1 fire red shrimp
3 hermit crabs
2 BTA (one splitted after a power outage, but they are doing great)
2 Frogspawns
1 Torch
1 bubble
1 gorgonia
2 candy cane
1 Sarcopython
1 green star polyp (really small frag)
1 anthelia
lots of zoanthids (around 100 polyps)
1 blue cleaner wrasse
1 cleaner shrimp - 1 fire red shrimp
3 hermit crabs
2 BTA (one splitted after a power outage, but they are doing great)
2 Frogspawns
1 Torch
1 bubble
1 gorgonia
2 candy cane
1 Sarcopython
1 green star polyp (really small frag)
1 anthelia
lots of zoanthids (around 100 polyps)
I feed my fish frozed mysis twice a week, and a algae 3 or something, both from tropical (brand). I haven't dosed with anything for corals yet, I add 5ml on wed of all-for-reef, and I added some calcium as I had really low calcium. I do weekly water changes of 10% and test my parameters before the water changes with Salifert.
All corals/fish/invertebrates are doing extremely well, all polyps open perfectly fine, perfect growth, 0 algae problems. But still the nitrate problem bugs me a lot.
The current problem I'm having is my insane amount of nitrates. I feed my fish really small portions once a day, cleaned the sandbed and everything and still 0 luck. There is no way of lowering them.
Attached down here are the measurements, 21/8/22 is missing the no3 value because I didn't have more tests for it I had to buy a new one.
Also a picture of my tank, it is not up to date I added more stuff lately but its the only I could find.