Morning you beautiful lot.
I'm having a little issue with nitrates. They are between 25-30ppm. Not overly stressed about it but I have been working on lowering them over the last few months. I've added maxspec bio balls as well this week as I belive the ceramic (chineese) blocks have NOT helped at all. I have 30 15cm chineese blocks in the sump.
So the addition of 10 of the nano spheres I'm hoping it will help to bring it down.
I do 10-15% water changes a week depending on sand bed. Feed every other day much to the dismay of the fish. Frozen mysis shrimp. Nitrates havnt changed. My phosphate was 0.03 but I raised it a little to help to lower the nitrates soo I could carbon dose....
But I thought I would test my actual fresh mixed salt water and I have 2.5ppm of nitrate in it. 0.02 from my RO filter water. Could this be an issue?
I'm aware its not the cause of the high nitrates in the aquarium, but could the nitrate in the salt mix be making it harder?
I'm having a little issue with nitrates. They are between 25-30ppm. Not overly stressed about it but I have been working on lowering them over the last few months. I've added maxspec bio balls as well this week as I belive the ceramic (chineese) blocks have NOT helped at all. I have 30 15cm chineese blocks in the sump.
So the addition of 10 of the nano spheres I'm hoping it will help to bring it down.
I do 10-15% water changes a week depending on sand bed. Feed every other day much to the dismay of the fish. Frozen mysis shrimp. Nitrates havnt changed. My phosphate was 0.03 but I raised it a little to help to lower the nitrates soo I could carbon dose....
But I thought I would test my actual fresh mixed salt water and I have 2.5ppm of nitrate in it. 0.02 from my RO filter water. Could this be an issue?
I'm aware its not the cause of the high nitrates in the aquarium, but could the nitrate in the salt mix be making it harder?