Nitrates won't go down! Over 150

[Doctor Faust]

lol Nice. Oh nothing, just a diy led thing I did to my biocube for a display light. But it’s to bright and the wrong spectrum. It’s junk lol, he was kidding lol. The wiring may or may not catch my house on fire if I use it again lol.

did you make a scrubber too by any chance?

 

[Hemmdog]

did you make a scrubber too by any chance?

Nah. I’m not that crafty lol.

 

[BryanD]

Heavy bioload in a 7 month old tank. There's your problem.

 

[Derek Asbury]

Hell I wish I could get my nitrates to rise lol I'm haveing a phosphate problem and cant get them to go down without useing no pox but it just kills out my nitrates to 0 then stops working I've added GFO and that works as well but I'm still haveing trouble lowering then down to a level I would like

 

[Cali-Saltwater-1st-Timer]

It's the black sand. Get rid of it.

Nothing to do with his parameters being elevated. Plenty of people have black sand and don't deal with elevated nutrients.

 

[Cali-Saltwater-1st-Timer]

This was a masterful troll thread. Brilliant lol.

 

[Cali-Saltwater-1st-Timer]

yeah well this guy sees your algae scrubbers and raises you the random introduction of anglers/stonefish/lionfish to deal with all those extra fish he has cruising around! it's a new and possibly frowned upon method of nutrient export

lol!!!!!

 

[Snoopdog]

• A walking batfish (75 gallon minimum)
• A Fu Manchu lionfish (30 gallon minimum, but heavy bioload)
• A "few damsels here and there" (two or three would be too many, depending on what type they are)
• 2 small tangs (you should have 0 tangs in a tank that size - tangs need a lot of swimming room, and the least demanding need at least a 75g tank)
• 2 moonies (are these cape moonies/kitefish? If so, okay to have one in a tank your size... two is overkill)
• A combtail blenny (30 gallon minimum, so this one is fine)
• A lyretail anthias (Do best in schools of at least 3-4, and they need a lot of swimming space... 125 gallon minimum)
• A firefish (generally fine)
• A pygmy wrasse (probably fine)
• 3 (3!) leopard wrasses (You really shouldn't have any of these in a tank that's only 7 months old. They're very finicky eaters and require an extremely robust population of pods to survive. 3 in a tank your size would decimate your pod population and begin slowly starving to death)
• A foxface (Depending on the species, 70-125 gallon tank)
• A cowfish (Depending on the species, 90-250g minimum for one of these
• Not to mention, 9 seahorses

Holy crap on a cracker! I have an E260 and have one big fish and like 7 small fish and I think I have a lot.

In all seriousness though. If the OP is real and not trolling, he is irresponsible. Maybe he just has too much money and likes throwing it at killing things, either way people like him are the eyesore of this hobby and the polar opposite of what I try to accomplish in keeping a reef tank.

I see a lot of people being impatient and not researching going into this, that bothers me. Too many tanks starting up with heavy expectations and then torn down, people bleaching rocks killing the biodiversity and then getting yet another round of dinoflagellates, repeat and rinse. But this guy is over the top and the poster child of bad reefkeeping.

 

[DaneGer21]

Holy crap on a cracker! I have an E260 and have one big fish and like 7 small fish and I think I have a lot.

That’s exactly my line up in my 220gal with 250gal total.

 

[Snoopdog]

That’s exactly my line up in my 220gal with 250gal total.

Yeah I think I said my peace and will leave this thread alone, Jesus H. Christ.

 

[brandon clow]

This was well worth the read and I hope you figured out your nitrate problem with balancing out that bioload or not. I definitely chuckled on many of the replies and some of the larger/aggressive fish choices. Did the new tank ever make it, whats the status of tanks today? Even if there was some level of trolling occurring here it was one wild ride taking it all in as 100% legit.