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Old 01-13-2008, 05:50 AM
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Thanks Doug.
Jason & Colin, thanks as well. Jason I think you are certainly overdue for an order
Colin I am counting on you to help me make more room.

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Canuckgod420what product did you use to bring down your nitrates?
Please see below
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mseepmanYeah, now we all need to know how you dropped the Nitrate...don't keep us in suspense.
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SeaSerpanthowd you get the nitrate down
Okay, long story.
There are several parts to that equation. I started using Polyp-Labs "Reef-resh" which made a big difference, I added a 40 gallon refugium which not only worked as a nitrate & bioload export but increased water capacity, I introduced a whole bunch of blue legged hermits to eat the hair algae, I got a way bigger & better skimmer and I added a prop tank which again added more water volume. Unrelated to nitrates but I also added a chiller so I could avoid the annual "summer kill" or "brown out" from the heat. Unfortunately in July I had my infamous dishwasher leaking into my tank incident which either bleached or browned everything out again (lost about 9 pieces of sps) but as you can see it is now on the rebound. Thanks for the interest.
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