my GHA is disappearing but i don't know how

[bushdoc]

would dosing vineegar and vodka not pee my torches off they we're not cheap £2050 for 3 torches

Here’s a question to ponder: Are frequent water changes creating variations in chemical stability of your tank?

Just to be clear, GFO is not for nitrates.

you right, I thought about biopellets in reactor. mea culpa

 

[Dave1993]

Here’s a question to ponder: Are frequent water changes creating variations in chemical stability of your tank?

you right, I thought about biopellets in reactor. mea culpa

don't know but only 1 torch gets pee'd off with water changes and it's fine the next day i would rather not risk dosing vinegar and vodka and killing them

 

[bushdoc]

Do your torches like Nitrate level of 60 ppm?
That’s the level of Nitrates I had in my FOWLR and noting was growing there except some mushrooms.

 

[Dave1993]

Do your torches like Nitrate level of 60 ppm?
That’s the level of Nitrates I had in my FOWLR and noting was growing there except some mushrooms.

they are always fully extended so i guess so

 

[Dan_P]

think something has died in the rock i got live rock i get it down to 40 2 days later it is back up to 60

I always like to check. Are nitrites 0.0 ppm?

 

[Dave1993]

I always like to check. Are nitrites 0.0 ppm?

yeah i thought nitrites might have been the problem so i bought a hanna nitrite checker and tested 0

 

[ScottB]

How is your nitrate so high with all the water changes?

That is my question too.

 

[Cthulukelele]

That is my question too.

Yeah this is also my biggest surprise. With a modern skimmer or fuge that seems practically impossible without a bucket of fried shrimp rotting in the sump

 

[ScottB]

don't know but only 1 torch gets pee'd off with water changes and it's fine the next day i would rather not risk dosing vinegar and vodka and killing them

I don't understand where all the nitrate is coming from. What is your water source? I feed buckets of food into my system and keep around 5. What are you feeding the system?

Dosing carbon should be done VERY gradually and methodically. All it does is supercharge growth of the bacteria population (over time). Those bacteria then process the nitrate which gasses off into nitrogen when consumed. One could argue it is less disturbing than 20% WCs.

*edit: You cannot do carbon dosing without an effective skimmer. Important to note this.

 

[Dave1993]

look i have no clue where the nitrate is coming from i have no fish i do not feed the tank i have 1 snail i have no clue where the nitrate is coming from but it is there tested on 3 different tests API / Salifert / Hanna

i use rodi water testing at 0tds 0 nitrate i have tested everything

my nitrite is 0

 

[Tamberav]

my phosphates are 0.06
my nitrates are 60

how is it going away

Why can’t it go away? Pods and cuc eat it and other things compete for space and so on.

 

[Cthulukelele]

look i have no clue where the nitrate is coming from i have no fish i do not feed the tank i have 1 snail i have no clue where the nitrate is coming from but it is there tested on 3 different tests API / Salifert / Hanna

i use rodi water testing at 0tds 0 nitrate i have tested everything

my nitrite is 0

What's the water smell like?

 

[Dave1993]

Why can’t it go away? Pods and cuc eat it and other things compete for space and so on.

dnu i have 1 snail it was all over like 2 days ago now it's pretty much gone just thought it was wierd

 

[Dave1993]

What's the water smell like?

nothing really

 

[ScottB]

look i have no clue where the nitrate is coming from i have no fish i do not feed the tank i have 1 snail i have no clue where the nitrate is coming from but it is there tested on 3 different tests API / Salifert / Hanna

i use rodi water testing at 0tds 0 nitrate i have tested everything

I'm stumped then.

 

[Dave1993]

I'm stumped then.

yea me 2 this has been happening since last november when i put the tank up at 1st i was doing 75% water changes before adding coral then i have been doing 20%

 

[Dave1993]

i have bought 3 different sets of regents for the hanna checker alll 3 read the same

 

[JoJosReef]

Maybe add some macroalgae to the display? Could add a splash of color and shape while eating up some of the nitrates.

 

[I never finish anythi]

Just to be clear, GFO is not for nitrates.

Gfo is not vodka , vinegar or bio pellets

 

[Tamberav]

dnu i have 1 snail it was all over like 2 days ago now it's pretty much gone just thought it was wierd

If I cycle with dry rock, I sometimes get GHA after a bit that blooms then dies off. I assume it likes ammonia which other things end up uptaking/converting too and it gets outcompeted.