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[stupidted]

Honestly don't risk it I dosed half the recommended dose and in like a months time coral lost like crazy. Never seen nitrates change at all make sure your tanks established for your bio load and if your rocks are to close where water can't blow thru and around detritus will build up I have a pretty sweet tank I feel , people say don't do large water Changes. I do a 80 percent water change ever month. I eventually to get nitrates down I sold half my rock cause I had about 220 pounds in a 75 gallon sold my 3 biggest fish which was my hippo yellow and sailfin tangs and staid on top of my huge water Changes. Now my nitrates stay between 5 and about 30 at the end of month. No nuisance algae whatsoever and I feed my 75 heavy heavy super heavy but even with 30 nitrates at the end of the month every thing super healthy

Thanks for the feedback. I have been thinking my issue was my aquascaping and too many fish. I have a 225 peninsula with about 350lbs of Rock. Since I can't support it using the back wall I set it up with two large islands and tried to make as many caves and holes to allow water to pass through but I think it's better that I pull some out and rescape it. I'm using 2 mp40s and 2 rw20's for flow and it moves a lot of water but I think I'll follow your lead and get rid of some rock. About a month ago I started vodka dosing to help bring it down but didn't see any results. I know that it takes time to bring it down so I did the water changes to bring it back to safe levels. Using Api tests I went from 160+ to around 20.

Thankfully I have a 300 gallon frag system in the garage I was able to move the corals too but want to get them back in to the main tank. Should I do a couple more water changes to lower the nitrates more, or should I just wait for the vodka to bring it down and stabilize?

 

[Tommy's Reef]

Welcome to R2R.....NOOX is good to maintain low level of nitrates but when its too high go for large water changes nothing works better than old school water changes...

He said it best wene your nitrates are high water changes. Carbon dosing wene nitrates are that high 160 is dangerous if u get them at 20 I'd dose but now Days I don't dose carbon stuff I lost everything man. But if u notice deaths move them to your frag tank