Tank levels

[New reefer2021]

High everyone iam pretty new here . I been in the hobby for over 6 months ran into alot of trail and error . I all was battling high nitrate. Today I took my reading and for every thing here they are
Nitrate is 58.6
Phosphate 0.44
Nitrites 0.5
Amone 0


Any idea on what I can do to lower nitrate

 

[Yazannreef]

First 20% water changes will help lower the nitrate. Then Chaeto/ algae scrubber to maintain it.im not big fan of additives since they cause more harm than good.

 

[PeterC99]

Welcome to R2R!

Have you thoughts about a Refugium with Chaeto to help manage nitrates?

 

[ying yang]

Maybe you feeding to much and not enough water changes, either or either or combination if both ?
Maybe not enough cuc
Could be lots different things combined and just need keep tweaking it till you find the balance

 

[New reefer2021]

Welcome to R2R!

Have you thoughts about a Refugium with Chaeto to help manage nitrates?

Yes I just started it last Sunday so I really don't no if it helping yet I keep the light on For 8 hours .

 

[New reefer2021]

Maybe you feeding to much and not enough water changes, either or either or combination if both ?
Maybe not enough cuc
Could be lots different things combined and just need keep tweaking it till you find the balance

What's cuc this set up

 

[vetteguy53081]

Nitrate very high but before accepting such reading, what test kits are you using ?

Your targets are :
Temp 77-79
ph 8.1-8.3
salinity 1.025
nitrate < .5
phos < .04
Ammonia < .03
mG 1300
Alk 8-10
CA 440

 

[New reefer2021]

Nitrate very high but before accepting such reading, what test kits are you using ?

Your targets are :
Temp 77-79
ph 8.1-8.3
salinity 1.025
nitrate < .5
phos < .04
Ammonia < .03
mG 1300
Alk 8-10
CA 440

Iam using hanna and apex

 

[Adrift]

Welcome to R2R glad you joined

 

[Sebastiancrab]

Welcome!

 

[Rmckoy]

There is a slight imbalance between phosphates and nitrates .

ammonia and nitrite are irrelevant and once cycled testing these parameters often isn’t required as they should be zero

you need to find what’s contributing to the high nitrates .

heavy in , heavy out . Employ cheato , algae scrubbers etc .
something to export nutrients .
There was no mention of a skimmer , filter socks or what’s used ?
How often are they cleaned or changed ?
What’s your water source ?
have you tested tds going ?

 

[ying yang]

What's cuc this set up

Unsure if you asking what's "cuc" or saying you
Don't need cuc because you have set up that you've got.
If asking what's cuc then it's clean up crew aka snails,hermits,urchins etc, anything that cleans up after fishes waste and generally just cleans up the tank whether that's algae or detritus or whatever

 

[New reefer2021]

Unsure if you asking what's "cuc" or saying you
Don't need cuc because you have set up that you've got.
If asking what's cuc then it's clean up crew aka snails,hermits,urchins etc, anything that cleans up after fishes waste and generally just cleans up the tank whether that's algae or detritus or whatever

Ooo ok I have two urchins I had 12 snails buy my fish eat them

 

[New reefer2021]

There is a slight imbalance between phosphates and nitrates .

ammonia and nitrite are irrelevant and once cycled testing these parameters often isn’t required as they should be zero

you need to find what’s contributing to the high nitrates .

heavy in , heavy out . Employ cheato , algae scrubbers etc .
something to export nutrients .
There was no mention of a skimmer , filter socks or what’s used ?
How often are they cleaned or changed ?
What’s your water source ?
have you tested tds going ?

I just started cheto and I have my skimmer and filter socks I use 4 stage rod . I really want to build a scrubber. I can't buy one at this point time