If you have critters/bacteria to eat detritus and disturb the sand and enough flow to pick it up and dump over the returnThanks I'll have a read. I make my own saltwater so I always have water on hand.
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If you have critters/bacteria to eat detritus and disturb the sand and enough flow to pick it up and dump over the returnThanks I'll have a read. I make my own saltwater so I always have water on hand.
You keep your nitrates at 25ppm? I'm aiming for around 10. My tank is overstocked. I didn't realize how fast my foxface and pretty much every fish would grow. I'm trying to get my foxface out. That should help with the nitrate and my zoa loss.My tank is almost 11 months old. I've changed my sand for coarser and since have not vacuumed my bottom.
I have a sand sifter goby and cerith snails that seem to be doing a great job in keeping my bottom clean.
My only WC in recent times has been 15% to reduce No3. Now stable around 25ppm. Dosing Reef essentials.
No I am working my way down from 60ppm. Am now at 24 and going for 10-15.You keep your nitrates at 25ppm? I'm aiming for around 10. My tank is overstocked. I didn't realize how fast my foxface and pretty much every fish would grow. I'm trying to get my foxface out. That should help with the nitrate and my zoa loss.
Take out the foxface and watch algae bloomYou keep your nitrates at 25ppm? I'm aiming for around 10. My tank is overstocked. I didn't realize how fast my foxface and pretty much every fish would grow. I'm trying to get my foxface out. That should help with the nitrate and my zoa loss.
I have 2 tangs, blenny, and turbo snails for algae control.Take out the foxface and watch algae bloom
I had one and took it out and macro algae went nuts. I put another small one in with a sea hair. Not sure which had the biggest impact but my macro is gone
I am dosing NOPOX for NO3. I was dosing as per the bottle for months and no change. Then reefers here advised increasing NOPOX (bottle says nothing about increasing) but now at 6ml per day and NO3 is heading down.
I put a sailfin in my tank after the Foxface. got Ich and died in weeks. Thankfully I managed to not infect other fish. Lost nothing elseI have 2 tangs, blenny, and turbo snails for algae control.
How do you know that you have a DOC buildup?Haven6 seen a better way to get rid of the DOC that builds up in a system.
My goal is never having to do water changes. :-) Even having to vacuum the sand bed is a pain lol
Might as well just change the waterHave plenty of critters to clean and move the sand bed around. You will need to use a dosing program like triton or reef moonshiners. And your nutrients obviously need to be controlled. It’s possible. Plenty of people do it. Few do it well though.
How do you know that you have a DOC buildup?
So there's no negative effects then?If you have anything living in your system count on it.
So there's no negative effects then?
I am not a big fan of weekly or monthly regular water changes, but there are two other issues with NO Water changes: If you are using Two Part additives to correct Ca and dKH, you are slowly changing composition of your "sea" water and it becomes mostly a brine solution. That would happen after very long time. You are also not providing micro elements ( unless you adding them). In Europe Balling method is much more popular than in US and it is designed to overcome problem of Two Part Additives by providing extra elements and correcting imbalances. It is too complicated for me, so I do 20% water changes every 2-3 months or so.I've had my tank running for almost a year now. I'm trying not to have to do water changes. However I've been running into high nitrate and phosphate issues. I've started vacuuming the sand bed to try and get the nitrates down. I have to essentially do a water change when vacuuming the sand bed. So was wondering if it's possible to never do a water change when there's a sandbed capturing detritus?