Aerate your tank well and you won't need a buffer.
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wow - thank you for this info - we have been fighting the nitrate fight as well... granted, part of the battle absolutely has to do with us rushing things with too much bioload too quickly, but we had also added a fuge with chaeto and mangroves as well as a biopellet reactor and while our nitrate numbers had come down, they were still showing in the 40 range with the API test kit... thank you!Hey Gregory,
In the API nitrate test kit instructions half way down it says take the number you get from the reading and divide it by 4.4 and that's where your nitrates are. You should be at 4.54ppm. :thumbup:
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wow - thank you for this info - we have been fighting the nitrate fight as well... granted, part of the battle absolutely has to do with us rushing things with too much bioload too quickly, but we had also added a fuge with chaeto and mangroves as well as a biopellet reactor and while our nitrate numbers had come down, they were still showing in the 40 range with the API test kit... thank you!
don't get too excited. the difference is that api (and severl other kits) are calibrated for the total nitrate ion. but some other kits (fasttest for one) are calibrated to only reflect the nitrogem part fo the nitrate ion (nitrate-nitrogen). So if you api says 40ppm that is actually 40ppm nitrates (total) and ~10ppm nitrate-nitrogen.