Nitrates in Well Water

[musky1963]

I have well water and my nitrates are around 20 ppm. I checked the ammonia, PH and nirites, which all look okay. My tank seems to do great using the well water, but I am worried that that could change. I have a 75g tank with about 80lbs. of LR, 100lbs sand/crushed coral, 2 clowns, a blenny and a hawkfish. Shrooms, a few corals seem to be healthy as well. I just upgraded to a Euro-Reef RS-80 skimmer, which is very nice and seems to be doing it's job. I have had this tank for about 3 weeks at my house, which was used and running for 3 years at the previous owners house. Anyways, I have looked into RO units, but not sure if that would help me, as the water pressure isn't great, but not too bad either. I have to top off about 1 gal per day and haven't started changing water yet. I just got over a small brown diatom algae cycle and now everything seems to have leveled off. Any ideas on what my options are?

 

[K9]

I'd buy an RO/DI unit anyways. It's true that some people get lucky as far as using tap water, but I wouldn't risk it. Check out eBay for RO/DI stuff. You can find some great deals there.