My skimmer is so disgusting but does such a good job lol! After about a day of using it my nitrates are now down to 13 from like 40+, my pH is up, and my corals are much more open!
Yes…but I did start to feed less and do some other things that helped but the skimmer did really help especially because it’s a nano I mean they probably slowly went down from last week too due to other things like feeding less and less algae because I cut back on lighting. The skimmer did help the corals open up more I will say. The cup got dirty very quickly I’ve emptied a few times already and I know it has a break in period.
That’s odd the increase in ph is expected although mechanical filtration doesn’t remove nitrates directly, it removes organic before they break down into nitrates and phosphates.My skimmer is so disgusting but does such a good job lol! After about a day of using it my nitrates are now down to 13 from like 40+, my pH is up, and my corals are much more open!
Yeah but regardless I already see the positive results! I wish I would’ve just installed it first then maybe I wouldn’t have gotten that high to begin with causing algae and unhappy corals. I did cut back on feeding and lowered my lights but water changes alone weren’t helping.
Yes also admittedly I’m a little overstocked too.Feeding less is the best thing you can do. In almost all cases high nitrates comes from what the reefer puts into the tank.
In almost all cases high nitrates comes from what the reefer puts into the tank.
That is a really good point, volume plays a major factor in residual and ppm would always be the best way to determine a level of concentrationThat is true in some cases.
Some reefers define a lot of food as 1-2 cubes while others think 10-15 cubes is starving their fish.
In most cases, reefers today have good export method’s. There’s more tanks starving today than ever before. The problem I see more than anything is that some reefers just can’t stop feeding. Not only that, but they blindly feed without measuring what’s going in. That’s fine, but they need to have nutrient management under control first.
Then you have the flip side of that. Joe Reefer has a starving tank. He says he’s dosing NO3 and PO4. You ask how much are you dosing? He says 10 mL of each. Then you ask…what does 10 mL’s equate to in your total volume. He says…that’s a great question. LOL.
10 mL’s could be .000000000001 ppm or 100 ppm. Depending on volume it could be drastically different in 10 gallons vs 500 gallons. As soon as they begin to talk in mL’s and not ppm with their total volume I’m thinking here we go again.
Green clove polyps and GSP. Feeding less and less lighting so less algae. My recent water test. I will need to test it again. I use Hanna Checkers too and can verify they went down significantly.
Theoretical we could calculate the total by converting ppm to mg/l and multiply by the volume in litres.
No! This was the old test from last week an API Aquaspin but I verified with my checkers and the results were very similar. And the little bit of ammonia but that was probably because I had some dead hermit crabs I found and removed and 0.8 but I’m not overly concerned about phosphate especially now since everyone looks happy. 4 months and I have been on top of everything. I also recognize taking a little sample of water and driving it 30 minutes to the fish store will have varying results. Please also know these results were before adding a slimmer and sometime in the next few days I’ll be going to the fish store to get my water tested again.
