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kwandrsn
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Probably would
I thought about building a mini skimmer
The type where it is a tube with a wood air stone at the bottom and the bubbles come out the top thru a tube and into a jug. It would help with my space in my small tank as well. I just didn't know if those skimmers actually work
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I thought about building a mini skimmer
The type where it is a tube with a wood air stone at the bottom and the bubbles come out the top thru a tube and into a jug. It would help with my space in my small tank as well. I just didn't know if those skimmers actually work
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LOTS of snails. you will been to be careful as if a hermit snags a snail or they die for some other reason, that will cause a spike in your nitrates. I only "had" 50 or so in my 120, but I run across one that is upside down or dead every few days and have to get it out. The worse thing I saw was a hermit wearing a fighting conch shell; an expensive coat for sure
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Wow yeah the conch was an expensive cost lol. yeah I three in some empty shells hoping they will use them. One has already found a dead hermit where one ripped t
It out lol. but yeah I keep an eye on it. And that's only half I had twice as many I ordered from reef cleaners and I didn't order crabs but I got 18 live crabs anyways lol and over 300 dwarf ceriths, 29 nassarius, 13 Florida ceriths, 12 nerites. Not bad for $25
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It out lol. but yeah I keep an eye on it. And that's only half I had twice as many I ordered from reef cleaners and I didn't order crabs but I got 18 live crabs anyways lol and over 300 dwarf ceriths, 29 nassarius, 13 Florida ceriths, 12 nerites. Not bad for $25
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as mentioned somewhere else, those are nitrate sponges. if you feel you need it, then by all means, change them all the time, they catch the things you want out of your tank. Actually for a new tank, 20 ppm isn't "bad," you've been given some great advice, see if they don't start falling. It seems like nitrates are always the last thing to get in line for great parameters.
It doesn't lower naturally in our systems. Its gotta have help, ie. Algae Turf Scrubber, Nitrate Reactor, Macro Algage in Sump, those items lower Nitrates. Naturally it would be Algae and plants in a Sump.
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Would this work?
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=11586&rel=1
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http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=11586&rel=1
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I got ya. Only reason I posted the other link is because it has everything with it. The phosban reactor you need to buy a pump.
I got ya. Only reason I posted the other link is because it has everything with it. The phosban reactor you need to buy a pump.
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50% water change will get no3 down by almost half in a day if you start running reactors with pellets or what ever it will take months by the time they start working your no3 will go even higher over those phew months so keeping it simple feeding less bigger water changest and good flow will fix no3 faster then what ever u planning to run
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kwandrsn
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yeah well I do weekly water changes I have no way to mix more than 4 gallons at a time. All I have is a 5 gallon bucket
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ak_reefer
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Another thing to think about to help with nitrates is overall good husbandry so make sure to stay on top of water changes and do not overfeed. Even a small hob Fuge would help greatly.
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I'm sure if I was to do a majorly large water change it would stay down it never gets over 20. I just don't have a way to mix that much water. I wish I did but I don't. I am just looking for something to help bring it down so it would stay that way. a friend uses algone and it brought his down from 5 to 0. The lfs he got it from said to use it instead of purigen well I bought p
Purigen the other day to see if it works. I just changed out my nitrate reducer pad it had been a few weeks. I just think its weird that the lfs says my water is fine even though my nitrate is 20. And it is a store that only deals with fish and coral
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Purigen the other day to see if it works. I just changed out my nitrate reducer pad it had been a few weeks. I just think its weird that the lfs says my water is fine even though my nitrate is 20. And it is a store that only deals with fish and coral
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