Hi guys!
Hitting the 8 months mark with my new tank and I have Quite a good amount of rocks. I was wondering if some of you have a tank, which uses up nitrates faster than they are produced. (No water changes or carbon dosing)
I know it takes a long time to establish a decent colony size of bacteria that turn nitrate into nitrogen gas.
If you do, could you maybe answer the following: Tank age, nitrate consumption over a certain time, tank size, livestock.
![17883962-C688-48EF-83D3-825EB34AA9E3.jpeg 17883962-C688-48EF-83D3-825EB34AA9E3.jpeg](https://www.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/1466/1466761-cf3dc4d4400512f0721b62d59f15c6e7.jpg)
Hitting the 8 months mark with my new tank and I have Quite a good amount of rocks. I was wondering if some of you have a tank, which uses up nitrates faster than they are produced. (No water changes or carbon dosing)
I know it takes a long time to establish a decent colony size of bacteria that turn nitrate into nitrogen gas.
If you do, could you maybe answer the following: Tank age, nitrate consumption over a certain time, tank size, livestock.
![17883962-C688-48EF-83D3-825EB34AA9E3.jpeg 17883962-C688-48EF-83D3-825EB34AA9E3.jpeg](https://www.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/1466/1466761-cf3dc4d4400512f0721b62d59f15c6e7.jpg)