yikes heavy nitrates reeked havic in my reef

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by andresont

Remember some one mentioned that German tanks with creasy SPS colors had a haze to it? They use clay too, to increase skimming and No3 reduction.

Right, but you don't have to use it every day do you? I have used it in my tank and it clears completely after about 24 hours. Seems funny that they'd put it in their tank and then take the photo

[andresont]

Good point !

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Deutsche Leute sind sehr verrückt!

[marie]

I have done 50% water changes every 2 days for a week on my old 75g tank with no stress what so ever. In fact because i was fixing major water quality issues at the time, I only saw a huge improvement with every water change

All of this just proves my skimmer on the 175g sucks . I took it offline for 2 weeks and all it did was increase my fretfullness, no nitrates, no extra glass cleaning, nothing.

[michika]

Originally Posted by Der_Iron_Chef

Deutsche Leute sind sehr verrückt!

Here here!

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Der_Iron_Chef

Deutsche Leute sind sehr verrückt!

German people are what?!?

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Very crazy

I can safely say that because I'm German...lol.

[phreezee]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

People talk of dosing vodka, dosing sugar as methods for feeding bacteria which feed upon the nitrate and then are skimmed out - you can try reading up on those methods.

I used sugar, and it worked amazing for me! I recommend it over wasting money on salt, denitrators, etc.

[Snappy]

Well it seems there are a lot of different views out there. My new skimmer is great, a Euro-Reef RC500, however the nitrate problem occurred because I was pretty much skimmerless for quite a while. I do my water changes through my refugium to minimize stress and it seems to work well. I am not sure what or how much sugar to use, obviously not refined, but I have also heard that sugar can create other problems down the road. I have continued with the Reef-resh which I think helps but my new problem is I am away next week on holidays so whatever I do I need to do now. I will look into the "clay" idea, thank you, and continue with water changes. I am not set up to be able to handle more than about 10% at a time so I think I will keep doing them at that rate this week. Darryl I am sorry to hear about the bubble gum, hopefully my insurance frag from you makes it so I can get a piece back to you. My chiller keeps the water temp great for the corals but gives off enough heat that the room is too hot for me. Man the sacrifices we make for this hobby. Thanks for the feed back everyone, I really appreciate it.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Der_Iron_Chef

Very crazy

I can safely say that because I'm German...lol.

haha the google translator said that german people were very moved. I knew there had to be more to it