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Props to you guys for the tenacity to reach some level of understanding with him.
Thank you Widdy... it worked and is so cool.
Since I owe you:
Nitrates IMHO is best managed over the long term. consistant water changes ( I do 30% monthly), bi-weekly may be better though.
Growing macro algae and setup of a refugium helps in a big way.
control/consistancy of bio-load, this means #of fish in tank and fish size... amount and type of food you feed... invert and clean up crew.
having the right amount of live rock in the tank... you can never have enough howver, space is always the limiting factor.
Water volume is your freind... increasing as much as possible will help.
Bio-pellets is an alternative (not substitute) to not having enough LR and LS
Siphoning your sand avery 6 months or more if never been done.
try and keep No3 and Po4 within the redfield ratio of 16:1
with who? did I miss something?
You're welcome. You didn't owe me... But thanks for your advice, much appreciate it. I've ran way too many methods in my time in the hobby. I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to my tank. Biopellets, Zeovit, VSV, Coil Denitrator, NoPo-X, pretty sure there's a few more.
Now, it's been 8 months since I removed my skimmer, 3 months since last WC. I use a lot of Seachem Matrix Pond biomedia, filter floss and an ARID chaeto reactor. Working out okay, certainly room for improvement, but for now it frees up time for me to focus on other things going on around me. Just tested nitrates this afternoon, sitting around 10ppm. Can't complain...
Thanks again, and please keep sharing... helping just one person from re-inventing the wheel can save them that much time and effort.
LOL, yup tried alot of the stuff you did above. I haven't had the guts to take down my protein skimmer yet but it makes sense to me. Personally I think nitrates under 10 is fine. under 5 preferable... right now I'm running at 1.5 as read on the red sea nitrate pro kit... woa. Po4 is at 1.9... It took me almost a year to lower it to that level by simply cleaning things up and cutting back on bio -load... now I have to be careful not to strip it too much. I do have mostly SPS in my tank so I like it a bit cleaner. However, I did notice that corals like xenias and button polyps as well as shrooms grow much much slower now that i'm running a cleaner tank. which I like as the SPS's are flying.
I remember when I got to 10PPM No3 it stayed there for quite a while and i got frustrated and even posted here about it. However, I kept to the regiment and little by little No3 started to creep down to the 1.5 level that I'm at now. so I started to raise the feed amount... my goal is to try and keep it between 5-2. Trying to get it down to a science. to me thats the hard part... automation.
now teach me how to lower my nitrates :p
widdy, do what i did.....lower your water volume to zero.....no more nitrates, phosphate, bleaching, rtn, stn, redbug, flatworm, bristle worm, asterinas, cyano, nada....
broke down my tank several weeks ago.:lol2: