Nitrate
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Or just go buy a bottle of Vodka:
Vodka Dosing by 'Genetics' and 'Stony_Corals' - Reefkeeping.com
Vodka Dosing by 'Genetics' and 'Stony_Corals' - Reefkeeping.com
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kwandrsn
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I think I'm gonna pass on that... Interesting though but it seems a bit involved in dosing daily and what not. I'm going to do more research it but I don't like adding the idea of adding chemicals more than I have to
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Lots of people do this, or dose vinegar. When done properly it grows bacteria that eats up Nitrates first, then phosphates at a slower rate. I did this for close to 2 years without incident. Easy enough to do, but getting up to the daily dose going by the insctructions can take up to a year, so ya gotta cheat a bit. I was dosing 9mls in the am and 9mls in the pm every day using a childs medicine doser, its really not a big deal. It can be set up on an automated dosing system also.
Dragonreef202
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Adding more rock to your tank and just keep up with the water changes. In time your tank should be maturing to a stable system.
fragmatic
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.....this.....!!!
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kwandrsn
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Ok I paid $55 for 18lbs of live rock with tons of hitchhikers including mussels and a polythoa polyp and a mushroom and also a hermit crab lol
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kwandrsn
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Ok I bought a heavy duty 32 gallon brute trash can and a 200watt heater to mix my saltwater. I done a 12 gallon water change. Before I could only make up a 5 gallon bucket at a time. Well my nitrates went down from 20 to 10. I don't know if I should do another one tomorrow or wait a few days. I have to drain the water down where some of my coral is out of the water I hope this dont hurt anything
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kwandrsn
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Ok as a update I went back to work on the river and now I'm away from the house about 15 hours a day and rarely get a day off. So... it's going to be hard maintaining my tank.
I checked and my nitrates are up to 20 again. So I done a 15 gallon water change. I'm feeding my fish once a day I'm thinking of cutting back to once every other day... Any thoughts?
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I checked and my nitrates are up to 20 again. So I done a 15 gallon water change. I'm feeding my fish once a day I'm thinking of cutting back to once every other day... Any thoughts?
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I only feed every other day. If you were to perform a 50% water change, this would only knock your Nitrate numbers in half.
Gregory
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I had this same problem when using a API liquid test kit. Mine always read 20 ppm by my next water change. I went out and bought two different test kits and both showed only trace amounts if nitrate. I even tested the same water with all three kits. Only the liquid API kit showed 20 ppm. The other two did not show but trace amount. I think there is a problem with that test kit. I have a 100 g tank with 35 g sum/refug, skimmer, 2500 GPS return and 2 power heads. I also have 150 lbs live rock.
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kwandrsn
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Yeah I think I'm going to just let it ride at 20 I'll keep up with the water changes but a lfs that only deals with fish and coral says my water is fine when I take them a sample
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