Nitrates help Please

I highly recommend the use of filter socks cleaned out regularly on the overflow from the tank to the sump, usually placed in the sump above the waterline of the sump. lets waste be collected before it has a chance to decompose and pollute the water.
Cheers!

[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.

[dareefguy]

Originally Posted by UnderWorldAquatics

I highly recommend the use of filter socks cleaned out regularly on the overflow from the tank to the sump, usually placed in the sump above the waterline of the sump. lets waste be collected before it has a chance to decompose and pollute the water.
Cheers!

MMm. above the water line is a neet concept. I will try that but first I will have to make the one side of my sump a little higher because I get some splash over. I had to lower my pipe till it was almost ontop of the water line.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

You could always try ZEOvit.

[Jason McK]

What are your feeding habits? Do you have any messy eaters like Eels, Puffers or something like that?

J

[andresont]

Originally Posted by dareefguy

I am thinking of using the LSM . I am just a little scared. I have heard of people stripping their sps.

Would I be best off to build a coil detrinator and put the LSM in there, or just put it in the second chamber of my calcium reactor?

Well i just stripped my best colored SPS lately with ZEO,
I guess the lesson is : follow instruction to the "T’s" and if you go DIY be prepared to some surprises.
As to coil DeNitrator it worked for a lot of people and at the fraction of the cost compare to Sulfur retail unit.
I have never tried any DeNitrator , just reading on CanReef about it.

[dareefguy]

Originally Posted by Der_Iron_Chef

You could always try ZEOvit.

I am not sure even what this is I have heard of it three times now and heard of stripping your coarals two times.

[dareefguy]

Originally Posted by Jason McK

What are your feeding habits? Do you have any messy eaters like Eels, Puffers or something like that?

J

I do over feed. I know I do. But I have a purple tang that will give my open brain a peck (sorta like a warning ) If I don't keep him fed.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Originally Posted by dareefguy

I am not sure even what this is I have heard of it three times now and heard of stripping your coarals two times.

Oh! Well I would say that they weren't implementing it properly, then. At least that's what I would assume without knowing all the information (dangerous, I know!)

But ZEOvit is a low-nutrient system that many, many people (including many on this forum) are using successfully! I'm using it myself, and my corals are very healthy.

www.zeovit.com

[Brent F]

Originally Posted by dareefguy

Let me see if I am getting this correct. Basically you are syphoning water out of your tank into your sump through a filter sock? Neet concept and I bet it would work good. But my sump is in another room so what I do is turky baste everything before I clean my filter sock on my return line. Kinda the same thing but not as effective. I could do it your way into pails and hall it back to my sump.

That's exactly what I do. My sump is under the tank so it is easy for me to do. The big advantage of this over turkey basting is it doesn't cloud the water.

I have also done a combination of this with basting. The siphon hose catches what the turkey baster blows out of the rock and sucks up the debris before it clouds the tank.

Since this method doesn't remove any water from the tank there is no limit on how much filtering you can do.