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Just wondering what would be considered an acceptable nitrate level. I'm old school and have been in this hobby for 35 years and always strived for the lowest nitrate and phosphate levels. I currently have a fish with tons of living rock and shrooms only tank. I have battled high nitrates (over 80ppm) for some time. After tons of water changes I have it down to 20-30 ppm. I also dosed vodka for 4 months with a 8ml per day dosage and all that did was bottom out my phosphate. I have been slowly dropping the dosage so I can stop it completely. Now I do 15% water changes weekly and it seems that the nitrates hover around 25-35ppm. Still have very low phosphates but that may change once I stop the vodka. Just a pain to change 20 gallons a week(125 gallon tank). Anybody have higher nitrates with know problems? I do get a heavy film on the glass which I clean weekly with the water change. It's thick enough that my Emporer Angel eats it as I scrape it!! No gha at all. Am I the only one that thinks this nitrate level is acceptable?