The 'help me hammer down my nitrate' thread...[Mature Tank with Problems]
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HOO-rah!!
We have gone from 100+ down to 50 with massive water changes, MarinePure block, ample live rock, vinegar dosing for 3 months, a sump clean-out, and Chemipure, but nothing was budging it down below 50 for long.
Three days of NoPox, and we are right about 25.
The resistence of this case (complicated by the need to dose Prime after invert and some fish death during an 8 day blackout) has been epic.
I'm dosing into the sump, once daily, and the corals are delighted. The candycane has been tight to its ribs and is starting, in however small a way, to puff up. The fish are doing well.
The only downside I'm seeing is a diminishing of pods and amphipods, but not an extinction.
We have gone from 100+ down to 50 with massive water changes, MarinePure block, ample live rock, vinegar dosing for 3 months, a sump clean-out, and Chemipure, but nothing was budging it down below 50 for long.
Three days of NoPox, and we are right about 25.
The resistence of this case (complicated by the need to dose Prime after invert and some fish death during an 8 day blackout) has been epic.
I'm dosing into the sump, once daily, and the corals are delighted. The candycane has been tight to its ribs and is starting, in however small a way, to puff up. The fish are doing well.
The only downside I'm seeing is a diminishing of pods and amphipods, but not an extinction.
I hope this holds up. I've tried all the above, singly and in combination and I've been fighting it since November. Each time I'd succeed in getting slightly less fuschia in the water color---but it'd start to climb again over time.
Now it's pale pink. I haven't EVER gotten it that low, not since November's disaster.
Now it's pale pink. I haven't EVER gotten it that low, not since November's disaster.
CarrieB
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Personally, I changed because all the anecdotal evidence seems to point to NoPox being more effective.
My water cleared the next day and I have resumed dosing 7.5 ml twice a day. No problems with cloudiness.
Kevin21, I have read concerns about the bacteria using up the oxygen in the water, so maybe lower the dose a little bit?
My water cleared the next day and I have resumed dosing 7.5 ml twice a day. No problems with cloudiness.
Kevin21, I have read concerns about the bacteria using up the oxygen in the water, so maybe lower the dose a little bit?
djbon
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I built this thing to control nitrate. Now my nitrate is about 2 ppm. Used to be over 80ppm. Vodka injected into it, bacteria is working overtime consuming nitrate. Small foot print as i don't have the space for refugium. Not a coil method by the way.
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tsav
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Until you run out of PO4.
Yep. THis whole mess started in an 8 day no-generator blackout and chilldown. Saved the tank, but part of the ecology (including a massive cheato ball in the sump) had suffered collapse and dieoff, plus treatment with Prime, which presents its own problems in getting an accurate reading. Been fighting the situation since November, and rebuilding the microlife.
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