Ok, I am hitting a wall and I am thinking I am going to start using the vodka dosing method to get my nitrates down.
To kick this off, here are mt tank levels -
No2 - <.03
No3 - 20ppm
NH3/4 - 0
Po4 - 0
KH - 9dkh
PH - 8.5
CA - 440
MG - 1380
SAL/SG - 32/1.024
My nitrates have been consistent at 20ppm for a few months now. It is driving me crazy. I run two reactors with phos-ban and Chemi-pure and do 10 gal water changes weekly now (was doing twice a week for a while). I also do a large WC of 20gal once a month.
Now some will say it is ok to have Nitrates that high, but I have red cyano growing in my sumps bubble trap and I am constantly battling it creeping into my Fuge and covering my macro algae. Normally, I would pull the sump and pull the sand then go bare bottom, but I don't want to decimate my copepod populatin as I have mandarins in my DT.
Anyone have a suggestion on reducing nitrates?
To kick this off, here are mt tank levels -
No2 - <.03
No3 - 20ppm
NH3/4 - 0
Po4 - 0
KH - 9dkh
PH - 8.5
CA - 440
MG - 1380
SAL/SG - 32/1.024
My nitrates have been consistent at 20ppm for a few months now. It is driving me crazy. I run two reactors with phos-ban and Chemi-pure and do 10 gal water changes weekly now (was doing twice a week for a while). I also do a large WC of 20gal once a month.
Now some will say it is ok to have Nitrates that high, but I have red cyano growing in my sumps bubble trap and I am constantly battling it creeping into my Fuge and covering my macro algae. Normally, I would pull the sump and pull the sand then go bare bottom, but I don't want to decimate my copepod populatin as I have mandarins in my DT.
Anyone have a suggestion on reducing nitrates?
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