How many recommend Nitrates over 20 for SPS

[RichConley]

Mariner, a more accurate representation of what you're trying to get at, would be a poll along the lines of

"How many sps keepers believe they should have:
1. No Nitrate
2. Some Nitrate"

Although you're still going to get people parroting what they've heard from people.

As to mimicing the ocean, I agree with whoever said it best. Wild animals develope to survive in their environment. That doesnt mean it is the optimum environment for them.

Many wild animals only eat once every couple weeks. House pets eat every day. I dont think thats a negative.

 

[Amphiprion]

Many of these animals are adapted to extremes in some form or another to begin with. Sometimes, when providing less of an extreme environment, the animals could potentially do better (obviously not all the time). But when animals evolve in certain ways, there is only so much plasticity between certain environmental differences. Animals such as corals and other cnidarians are plastic, but not nearly as, say, a cockroach.

 

[Mariner]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7131047#post7131047 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RichConley
Mariner, a more accurate representation of what you're trying to get at, would be a poll along the lines of

"How many sps keepers believe they should have:
1. No Nitrate
2. Some Nitrate"

You're probably right. Of course the reason I worded as I did was because of your challenge:

Check the SPS forum, there actually ARE a bunch of people running SPS tanks with 20+ nitrates with no problems.

Mariner

 

[jackson6745]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7130117#post7130117 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JB NY
Personally I don't advocated high nitrates when keeping SPS. If you are talking about deep coloration you have two choices IMO to have very good coloration with very low nutrients and not have high nitrates.

Keep more fish.

Use less powerful lighting.

I think many people started to go overboard with lighting, less fish and very clean water. The result is you see more people posting about not getting that deep color that they like so much.

I agree. This is why I am downgrading by beckett skimmer to a smaller recirculating skimmer. We'll see if it makes a difference. I tried adding more fish, but at 23 fish in a 120G, fighting is becoming a problem.