DragonMorayEels
In Memoriam
I not know if any of you can believe this or not but a while ago I changed the salt I was using for I discovered high nitrates in my twin eel tanks. I not often test for nitrates, so I not known this was happening until I decided one day to do a test.
I often use to test for nitrates once every other month and before I switched to Oceanic salt, I was using the coralife salt. I not done a water test on nitrates prier after changing to oceanic salt some ten months ago if not longer for which the last time I did test for nitrates were after the tanks were moved into my new home and next month would been two years for I was finish with the nitrate test after it turn too zero for after that, I should normally have no further need to test anything other then the eel tanks Ph.
Now I not remember if I done five or six water changes for I been very much busy with the kiddies these past weeks. Now do note that I only feed the eels once a week what`re they feed or not and the damsels in their tanks, I not feed each and every day. So little to no food is really being administered here.
So in as little as three weeks, the nitrate levels of 160+ is now back to the tanks normal untraceable levels. Now do note that I am somewhat of in surprise of this for I never done this before in reducing high nitrates in my very own tanks.
I know that if I had so many fish and so in continuing over feedings that this would been a bit long battle to plan out. I still had another water change ready to do and will still do it tonight for I not want it to sit around until the next week for I started making this 32 gals ready yesterday, and today I do the water change.
I was somewhat aggressive in all this for it was important too me to bring those levels down to normal. I do however still have three 200 gals buckets of oceanic that one is open with little salt was used in the last water change that I not had used it because I dump that water and right away went to work on doing a serious of water changes every 4th to 5th day for which the first two of these I did in three days of each other.
I do however expect some negative thoughts from some for which I understand those could never see this being a true statement. But do try to look at this from my view, I not ever over feed in my tanks, I feed the eels once a week what`re the eels feed or not, I feed the damsels in these tanks, but not everyday and sometimes I miss two days many times.
So it was my mistake to not checked for nitrates for so long or better yet in trusting what companies say that there aren't any nitrates. The salt I switched too now is the instant ocean salt, and I will from now on test for nitrates once a month if I need too or not.
I always before told people that I do my water changes to reduce any nitrates in my tanks, I cannot trust this sugar thing even if it works for it isn't a normal part of our marine species everyday life.
I was using the oceanic for one big reason, I can make the 30-32 gals of water for a water change inside of the same day.
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I often use to test for nitrates once every other month and before I switched to Oceanic salt, I was using the coralife salt. I not done a water test on nitrates prier after changing to oceanic salt some ten months ago if not longer for which the last time I did test for nitrates were after the tanks were moved into my new home and next month would been two years for I was finish with the nitrate test after it turn too zero for after that, I should normally have no further need to test anything other then the eel tanks Ph.
Now I not remember if I done five or six water changes for I been very much busy with the kiddies these past weeks. Now do note that I only feed the eels once a week what`re they feed or not and the damsels in their tanks, I not feed each and every day. So little to no food is really being administered here.
So in as little as three weeks, the nitrate levels of 160+ is now back to the tanks normal untraceable levels. Now do note that I am somewhat of in surprise of this for I never done this before in reducing high nitrates in my very own tanks.
I know that if I had so many fish and so in continuing over feedings that this would been a bit long battle to plan out. I still had another water change ready to do and will still do it tonight for I not want it to sit around until the next week for I started making this 32 gals ready yesterday, and today I do the water change.
I was somewhat aggressive in all this for it was important too me to bring those levels down to normal. I do however still have three 200 gals buckets of oceanic that one is open with little salt was used in the last water change that I not had used it because I dump that water and right away went to work on doing a serious of water changes every 4th to 5th day for which the first two of these I did in three days of each other.
I do however expect some negative thoughts from some for which I understand those could never see this being a true statement. But do try to look at this from my view, I not ever over feed in my tanks, I feed the eels once a week what`re the eels feed or not, I feed the damsels in these tanks, but not everyday and sometimes I miss two days many times.
So it was my mistake to not checked for nitrates for so long or better yet in trusting what companies say that there aren't any nitrates. The salt I switched too now is the instant ocean salt, and I will from now on test for nitrates once a month if I need too or not.
I always before told people that I do my water changes to reduce any nitrates in my tanks, I cannot trust this sugar thing even if it works for it isn't a normal part of our marine species everyday life.
I was using the oceanic for one big reason, I can make the 30-32 gals of water for a water change inside of the same day.
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