Phosphate nitrate controlling
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Volpone
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I don't know how this problem come to water !!!
I don't have a lot of fishes only couple of fire fish and dotty back and couple chromis,
When I start bio pellets reactor phosphate drop down to zero , but nitrate still at the same level between 25 ppm and 30 ,
I don't over feed the fishes , I think I will wait the pio pellets for couple week and check the water again and will add more 50 ml of bio pellets to see if the nitrate will drop .
I have doubt about the sand bed , but looking clean and has nothing to release nitrate . So weird the nitrate in my tank ....
I don't have a lot of fishes only couple of fire fish and dotty back and couple chromis,
When I start bio pellets reactor phosphate drop down to zero , but nitrate still at the same level between 25 ppm and 30 ,
I don't over feed the fishes , I think I will wait the pio pellets for couple week and check the water again and will add more 50 ml of bio pellets to see if the nitrate will drop .
I have doubt about the sand bed , but looking clean and has nothing to release nitrate . So weird the nitrate in my tank ....
stlucie-reefer
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I had the same problem with high nitrates. I was able to lower my nitrates by opening my base rock to allow better flow between them, I vacuumed my sand, cleaned my sump, and started a refugium. I also did a couple big water changes 30-40% and tweak my skimmer. My tank is 6 months old and has several soft corals and some hardy hard corals and several fish. None of my corals were effected during this process and I have lowered my nitrates from off the chart on an API test kit too 40ppm. In fact I think my corals were happy to feed on the gunk. I did this over 2-3 week period to prevent shocking my corals.
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@ stlucie that what I did before almost same u did aqua escape with big halls and caves ,
Any how waiting to see the effect of pio bellets every one say it will take 3-4 weeks now its running for almost one month .
The cheato keep growing also now , waiting the result soon after 10% water change
Any how waiting to see the effect of pio bellets every one say it will take 3-4 weeks now its running for almost one month .
The cheato keep growing also now , waiting the result soon after 10% water change
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Volpone
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Hello reefers :
Nitrate problem drive me crazy , it was around 30 ppm and I get many advice to add more bio pellets to reactor , so I belive the reactor contsin around 400 ml bio pellets but the problem now that I get spike in nitrate and its over 50 ppm ??? I noticed that when I add more bio pellets to reactor , whats going wrong now I dont know
Nitrate problem drive me crazy , it was around 30 ppm and I get many advice to add more bio pellets to reactor , so I belive the reactor contsin around 400 ml bio pellets but the problem now that I get spike in nitrate and its over 50 ppm ??? I noticed that when I add more bio pellets to reactor , whats going wrong now I dont know
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mcarroll
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Maybe double check your test kit? Are you the only one who can feed the tank? How has skimmer performance been during this issue?
I haven't noticed you mention other signs of nutrient issues - any excess algae growth or other indications of your nitrate issue?
I'm not sure I understand why you have the pellet reactor on a new 100 gallon system with just a few small fish in it anyway. I'd shut it down completely until A) you need it and B) you get this situation figured out.
As you have alluded yourself: there's no good reason to have nutrient issues on a new, reasonably-stocked, not-overfed tank like this.
The reactor isn't going to help with whatever is causing your issue IMO.
-Matt
I haven't noticed you mention other signs of nutrient issues - any excess algae growth or other indications of your nitrate issue?
I'm not sure I understand why you have the pellet reactor on a new 100 gallon system with just a few small fish in it anyway. I'd shut it down completely until A) you need it and B) you get this situation figured out.
As you have alluded yourself: there's no good reason to have nutrient issues on a new, reasonably-stocked, not-overfed tank like this.
The reactor isn't going to help with whatever is causing your issue IMO.
-Matt
Shadow1
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I think mcarroll has pegged it, system is too new and low stock for the issue at hand. I dose vodka, run a fuge and Hugh skimmer but have close to 50 fish some large in a 300. You need to track down the source of the nitrates and eliminate them.
From testing my system n03 is always 0 as p04 drops to 0 and cannot get p04 to 0 without n03.
From testing my system n03 is always 0 as p04 drops to 0 and cannot get p04 to 0 without n03.
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Volpone
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Hi mate I post new topic and explain everything about this issue , I can't figure out what cause nitrate spike , even water change weekly not helping get it down . It's keeping on 25 ppm
Then at my last water change I get the spike , I do vacuum surface sand bed , I clean up all the sump , I don't over feed fish , I don't have big fishes my skimmer work good reef octopus with 3000 L/h pump my return pump reef octopus 5000 l/h , there is no logic reason for this spike .
If u wanna say water source I have RO system and tds is 0'001 .???? If u want follow my other topic I get many suggestion and advice .
For algea grow I have on the back of tank and u can see it in pic .
My big doubt now if rock or sand leaching nitrate because there was in old tank running for more than year .
