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Ive been battling high nitrates in my 12 year old 265g reef for a while now. They tend to stay around 30-40ppm. Everythings growing fine but i do notice better growth when i do more water changes to bring it down to <25. So i would like to get it to stay between 10-25. I currently have a 30g refugium, biopellet reactor and a large reef octopus skimmer for filtration and do 10% water changes weekly. To get levels where i want them i have to do 20% weekly which adds quite a bit of inconvenience cause i don't have the extra storage room.
So ive been looking into sulfur reactors since they seem to target nitrates specifically. My phosphates stay between 0.04 and 0.08 so i don't want to affect them. Those of you that have tried them or still use them what are your thoughts? Pros and cons? Anything to look out for and do some reactors perform better than others?
So ive been looking into sulfur reactors since they seem to target nitrates specifically. My phosphates stay between 0.04 and 0.08 so i don't want to affect them. Those of you that have tried them or still use them what are your thoughts? Pros and cons? Anything to look out for and do some reactors perform better than others?