Well the Salifert Nitrate test kit came it and I closely followed the directions and my NO3 still shows zero ... that does seem odd. Something is absording the heck out of my NO3.
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Well the Salifert Nitrate test kit came it and I closely followed the directions and my NO3 still shows zero ... that does seem odd. Something is absording the heck out of my NO3.
Its the pellets they use nithos at a 10:1 ratio
I suspect the ecobak isn't working yet because the Nitrates are to low. Nitrates showed zero before I started using pellets ... but I do have alot of rock and some sand, maybe the soft coral are consuming it. Because I had nitrates in this tank before I added coral.
Argh! I am so torn on this. I do feed fairly good because I have an nice size NPS sun coral.Feed Feed Feed!!!!
What kind of rock?
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I started Eco-Bak in my 75 gallon reef in late March. My PO4 levels have always run a little high, which I think it partly due to the fact that my live rock has been in my tank forever (12+ years; it originally came from "Flying Fish Express" if that rings a bell with anyone). I've been running GFO for a while as well, but was still seeing levels of up to .30 PO4 with a Hanna Checker. I also run Seachem carbon and, occasionally, Seachem's phosphate product (the name escapes me right now). I'm using a PhosBan reactor with the Eco-Bak, and I used about 1/3 of the recommended dose to begin with and haven't added any. I've been dosing with bacterial additive, although I also use prodibio (bio digest and bio-optim) every other week. Nitrates have typically been low, but are now reading undetectable (Salifert). Yesterday's water testing indicated that I'm finally at 0 phosphates, which surprised me. I'm even seeing some of the caluerpa in my system dying off, so I knew something was working. I've also noticed that the skimmate the system is generating absolutely stinks; more so than it has in a long, long time. No ill effects on any sps corals, which is why I used less EB than recommended. I'm not totally happy with the phosban reactor, but I'm going to keep running EB. Good stuff that's showing some results for me after about 6 weeks.
I'm about out of space under the tank. With the sump, my top-off reservoir, and my dosing reservoirs, I don't know where I'd put one at this point....Try adding an algae scrubber to your system. You won't regret it.
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I'm about out of space under the tank. With the sump, my top-off reservoir, and my dosing reservoirs, I don't know where I'd put one at this point....