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Old 06-29-2008, 08:04 PM
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Default Nitrate!

It has been a month now and my tank parameters are:
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitate 0
PH 8.1-8.2
temp 77.5

I purchased two oscellaris clowns and some frogspawn coral 2 days ago. Now I read a 0.5 ppm in nitate. I assume this is normal as I am adding waste to my system.
What should I do?
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I'd just keep an eye on it. If you're that worried, do a waterchange, that should help the situation.
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Old 06-29-2008, 08:34 PM
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Thanks I will keep an eye on it for now.
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Is it typical to get nitrate when adding fish or coral?
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I haven't experienced that myself. Can you provide a little more info? What type of skimmer are you using? And are there any other types of mechanical filtration like sponges or bio balls, etc?
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Its a Red Sea Max 34g so it has a sponge with floss on top. It has a ceramics bag with carbon on top in the return chamber.Skimmer comes with the tank.
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