Nitrates help Please

[dareefguy]

Originally Posted by untamed

How much algae are you growing in the refugium? I believe that if you can grow enough algae, you'll use up the nitrate available in the system.

That is kinda where that plan had failed. I don't have any readable phosphates in my water. So it makes it hard to grow much algae. I am managing to keep about an ice cream pail full of cheato alive. And I also have 5 mangrove pods. I have tried growing several different macro algaes but they just disinagrate. I just aquired a piece of sea grass I am hoping that will grow for me.