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09/23/2020, 05:17 AM | #26 | |
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I see your report of lower numbers, but I never read here what test you use, do you try different one make/brand instead of the same but new kit ? All we know every one got at some time bad reading test kits. I have for most of my tests 3 different manufacturers: Red Sea Pro, Salifert and Hagen (for the base tests Alk, CA, MG, NO3, PO4, NO4 ...) the rest chemicals test kits are mixed between this 3 brands. (not sure are they the best possible, but for the based tests almost always I'm getting similar readings. Good luck with all that, and hope soon to get the right points. From my understandings till yet you don't found the problem which cause that manufacture of nitrates. |
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09/27/2020, 10:51 AM | #27 |
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I bought a new kit, expiration date is 2023. I also tested my other tanks and they were at 0.
And to update I have changed out all the sand in the tank and refugium, changed the total water volume at least 3x (I've gone through 2 buckets of salt), blown off all the rocks, reduced feeding, changing filter media every 3 days, bought a new skimmer and can only my nitrates down to 20ppt. So at this point I can not figure out where the nitrates are coming from. Literally I have changed everything except the actual tank, rocks and fish. I've attempted vodka dosing but got a bacterial bloom 3 days in and was advised to stop. My last effort to combat nitrates is to build an algae scrubber.
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09/30/2020, 05:39 PM | #28 |
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I would be careful pulling out alot of water with changes could reset the system and start a re-cycle
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09/30/2020, 05:57 PM | #29 |
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I have had this several times after dosing too much vodka. I would keep tank as stable as possible try 1 thing at time or else could make things worse
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10/03/2020, 08:30 AM | #30 |
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I really dont think the carbon dose could cause an issue. I dose about 1ml of vinegar per gallon of tank water a day and have 0 issues. You were dosing .25ml of vodka a day. This is the same as approx. 2ml of vinegar? and your reef is approx 68 gallons so according to my simple math, you should be ok. And it you did get some bacterial bloom, skim wet and it should clear up and take nitrate with it.
Cheers! Mark
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10/03/2020, 10:34 AM | #31 | |
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Is this bloom normal? I can't find a whole lot of info on it.
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Cheers! Mark
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The water got hazy on day 3 of dosing, which is when I stopped on advice from other reefers. The fear was that it was depleting the oxygen. Fish never had a problem though.
I'm go to dose vinegar. Hopefully I won't have the same bloom as with vinegar.
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10/03/2020, 03:23 PM | #35 | |
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I'm going to give the dosing another try! Thank you for you help!!!!
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No I don’t but I’ll break up the dose during the day. I do have an ATO but I don’t completely trust it so I’d rather manually dose.
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We used these for a long time. Simple to make and cheap. And easy to use.
-Fill bottle with dose and R/O -Open valve (drip irrigation part from hardware store) -Place finger over vent hole on cap -Gently squeeze bottle to start stream out of hose (aim into tank) -Remove finger from vent hole -Adjust valve to a slow drip We would run 2 bottles a day - 1 in the am and 1 in the pm. Cheers! Mark
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Love that idea with the drip. I am battling the same nitrate issue. Just bought a sulfur denitrator on eBay tonight. I added bio pellets, 25 percent water changes weekly, 30g refugium.
Starting to think it’s my food and rocks. Feeding nori daily to my tangs May be the new pollution after years of stability. Let me know how things work out and I will let you know if this denitrator works. |
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