BluewaterLa
Active Member
I find that a well balanced system is much easier to take care of and less headache worrying about excess nutrients building up.
The easy solution is to have the right number of fish to feed the right amount of corals. Corals will use nitrate, phosphate among other things for a food source so when we have too many fish this leads to a build up of organics in the water/ system and there are several ways to handle this situation.
Adding an over sized skimmer
Adding cheato in a refugium
using a form of carbon dosing or other methods / additives which have the same goal.
Many ways even large or more often water changes can all reduce the nutrient build up in a tank.
At the end of the day it is up to the individual on which route to take due to personal preferences, budget for equipment and continued maintenance needed.
Some like to be heavy on the fish population or overfeed the tank and this is something that will require more methods to remove waste from the tank.
Many good suggestions in this thread have been made.
Good luck and happy reefing
BluewaterLa/ Mike
The easy solution is to have the right number of fish to feed the right amount of corals. Corals will use nitrate, phosphate among other things for a food source so when we have too many fish this leads to a build up of organics in the water/ system and there are several ways to handle this situation.
Adding an over sized skimmer
Adding cheato in a refugium
using a form of carbon dosing or other methods / additives which have the same goal.
Many ways even large or more often water changes can all reduce the nutrient build up in a tank.
At the end of the day it is up to the individual on which route to take due to personal preferences, budget for equipment and continued maintenance needed.
Some like to be heavy on the fish population or overfeed the tank and this is something that will require more methods to remove waste from the tank.
Many good suggestions in this thread have been made.
Good luck and happy reefing
BluewaterLa/ Mike
