Opinions wanted on Nitrate control

[abank]

I have a 75g fowlr with a 5" blue angel, a 3.5" Niger and a 2" huma - a sump, bubble Magnus narc7 skimmer, mostly just keep actinics and moonlights on, a mix of live rock and Texas holy rock, about a 1-2 sand bed, I use chemi-pure, a phospad and purigen... And nitrates are off the chart, like 1000 even though fish are healthy looking and eating well gotta do something...

So, any thoughts on;

Bio-pellet reactor vs chaeto vs vodka/sugar dosing

Thanks!!!

 

[Long Island Andy]

Sulphur Denitrator is the only thing I have found that really knocked down the nitrates in my heavily loaded 65gallon. Went from 160 to 10 in 6 weeks

 

[swhobbie1]

How often do you do WC?

You might want to check aquaripure for nitrate control. I've been using one since April 2014 and dropped the nitrate from 15 to 0 < 5. I can also say that I seriously slacked at times and did not do WC every week or biweekly in the past and it still kept nitrate low. Only recent month or two I started doing WC regularly again bc I wanted to prevent nutrients going out of whack as my tank is mostly SPS. Only issues with it is that it gets clogged once in awhile and I do more freq but smaller vodka dose into it to eliminate the sulfur smell that can result right after you dose it with too much vodka. I also suspected the thing of lowering my PH but don't really know if that is the cause or not. I'm sure there is other ways to manage nitrate but I don't have a sump and this works for me.

 

[abank]

I do water changes every 2-3 weeks - I've tried doing a few large changes in a row, lots of small ones - the gha always comes back in force...

 

[swhobbie1]

If you don't have a GFO reactor you may want to look into that too.

 

[bigsink]

Sulphur Denitrator is the only thing I have found that really knocked down the nitrates in my heavily loaded 65gallon. Went from 160 to 10 in 6 weeks

This is the only way.

 

[Iammatt219]

Remote deep sand bed, along with a algae turf scrubber. Worked for me

 

[chuckbuc]

Sulfur def works i use one

 

[abank]

Thanks for all the feedback! Sounds pretty unanimous on the sulphur...