Howieytown
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Has anyone tried any of these Nitrate sponges or Nitrate eliminator filter additives?
My 75 gallon system w/sump =90 gallons total has a high bioload (fish) and the Nitrates are usually around 60-80. I do 10 gallon water changes every week.
I checked today and the Nitrates are up to 100! and a couple of my corals look slightly wilted. With the fragswap coming up I want everything blooming so to speak.
I'm going to do a couple of more water changes and see if that help but I was wondering if I should try one of these filter additives like nitrate sponge or something in a canister filter to try and help lower them.
Do they work??????????????
Right now the system is just running a Fluval canister with carbon, a skimmer off of the sump, a deep sand bed in the sump and tank, tons of macros and even mangroves also in the sump.
Main tank has metal halides and actinics, sump is on a reverse light schedule.
The tank and sump have at least 100 lbs of live rock and at least 70 lbs of live sand.
I have always had the nitrates around 60 with all the fish and everything I have growing seems ok but this higher spike has me worried that some of the corals are not happy, mainly the torch, hammer and frogspwan seem withdrawn.
The calcium is also high but all other tests are right on normal.
Besides moving fish out any other ideas?
My 75 gallon system w/sump =90 gallons total has a high bioload (fish) and the Nitrates are usually around 60-80. I do 10 gallon water changes every week.
I checked today and the Nitrates are up to 100! and a couple of my corals look slightly wilted. With the fragswap coming up I want everything blooming so to speak.
I'm going to do a couple of more water changes and see if that help but I was wondering if I should try one of these filter additives like nitrate sponge or something in a canister filter to try and help lower them.
Do they work??????????????
Right now the system is just running a Fluval canister with carbon, a skimmer off of the sump, a deep sand bed in the sump and tank, tons of macros and even mangroves also in the sump.
Main tank has metal halides and actinics, sump is on a reverse light schedule.
The tank and sump have at least 100 lbs of live rock and at least 70 lbs of live sand.
I have always had the nitrates around 60 with all the fish and everything I have growing seems ok but this higher spike has me worried that some of the corals are not happy, mainly the torch, hammer and frogspwan seem withdrawn.
The calcium is also high but all other tests are right on normal.
Besides moving fish out any other ideas?