Hello all. I have a question I have 165 pounds of now live rock in my system. What harm could I do if I removed lets say maybe 45 pounds of rock from my system or maybe even 60 pounds? Let me know. Thanks.
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You'll loose a lot of bioload. But if you let it rebuild bacteria before adding anything new or power feed it shouldn't hurt anything IMHO. Test ammonia and nitrite you'll probably get a small spike I know I did when I went back to BB took about a month to get back to normal.Hello all. I have a question I have 165 pounds of now live rock in my system. What harm could I do if I removed lets say maybe 45 pounds of rock from my system or maybe even 60 pounds? Let me know. Thanks.
This is the correct answer but we still need to know the total volume to give an accurate answer. Hypothetically, if its a 700g tank he shouldn't remove any.Remove small amounts a week at a time and you'll stress the system less.
My tank is 150 gallon I have the following fish:How large is your tank?
What is your bio load (fish, inverts, etc.)?
I agree that you can probably remove some slowly. Might even be able to remove it rapidly, depending on the setting. Can you describe the system in more detail?
FWIW, I don't think we have any sense of a full understanding how important rock actually is in many tanks with other means of ammonia export, such as macroalgae.
I think it is especially unclear that removing the rock will have a big effect on the nitrate, but it might.
It seems like a lot more work than just feeding more or dosing. [emoji23]
So just dosing would be easier? I really did not want to take my rock out but I would probably chew my left finger and put it in my sump
if there was proven fact that it got rid of Dinos lol. I do know I have no nitrates what so ever and if they are there they are undetectable
I figure remove some filtration and that should work. I am just going to get the Potassium Nitrate from amazon and dose that.
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Comp...&sr=8-3&keywords=potassium+nitrate+food+grade
@Randy Holmes-Farley thanks for the link.
Well I just ordered https://www.amazon.com/Science-Comp...&sr=8-3&keywords=potassium+nitrate+food+grade
KNO3 should get to me by the 25 or 26th. I might need help dosing this stuff. I do have a doser but I am going to hand dose this.
We can help guide dosing when it arrives. [emoji3]
I recievd my order of kNo3. I am not sure how to mix it. I read the label and the only thing I took from it is wear gloves and be very very careful lol. So what are my mixing instruction for a 150g. I did a nitrate test and no3 is still undetectable. thanks for the help. I knew I would need it.
Dose a phosphate solution, or feed more, or, if you have any, reduce phosphate export mechanisms such as GFO.