So my cycle seems to have stalled at high nitrates. Help please? :D

[Xyres]

Thanks for the continued support everyone! I have a few things to say as well as ask a few questions. Today I removed my foam in my 305 and added more carbon as unfortunately a sump is not an option with this tank. I also started vodka dosing today so i hope this helps as well.

Now my question is about a GFO/carbon reactor. Is there one that will work without a sump? In the past I looked at the BRS GFO/carbon reactors but they seem to be for sumps only. Any ideas?

[FragIt Dan]

Originally Posted by Xyres

Thanks for the continued support everyone! I have a few things to say as well as ask a few questions. Today I removed my foam in my 305 and added more carbon as unfortunately a sump is not an option with this tank. I also started vodka dosing today so i hope this helps as well.

Now my question is about a GFO/carbon reactor. Is there one that will work without a sump? In the past I looked at the BRS GFO/carbon reactors but they seem to be for sumps only. Any ideas?

The TLF ones hang on the glass, they should work without a sump, bug if I recall the BRS ones are much the same. As for the vodka dosing, look into Vinegar instead and save yourself some headache down the road with cyano blooms.
Dan

[reefwars]

i personally wouldnt be vodka dosing without a skimmer running.

[Xyres]

I am running a skimmer in my tank. Also is a cyano bloom a big deal? This is my first salt tank so I am very new still. My 200g is going to be a way different setup when I save the money for it haha.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Xyres

I am running a skimmer in my tank.

What kind of skimmer?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by reefwars

i personally wouldnt be vodka dosing without a skimmer running.

I'm not sure I'd be dosing vodka without a lot of research and experience. I'm pretty sure it's one of those things that can go real bad real quick if you mess it up.

[Xyres]

It's a BH-1000.
And I know, but it is just chemistry for the most part. It is either I try a desperate attempt to get the nitrates down or my tank ends up crashing due to nitrates.

As of today with the skimmer going full steam, day 5 of vodka dosing and no foam in my filter no changes have occurred. This is really frustrating.

[Xyres]

I just did something that I hope will be the solution to my problems. There is a foam block in my protein skimmer... That hasn't been cleaned since I set it up... Let's hope that this works.

[Cal_stir]

Problem with vodka dosing is that it requires more po4 than no3 to work, and if you don't have enough of one or the other available then the process stops and you are just getting the fish drunk.
Fish are very tolerant to no3, 100 ppm doesn't hurt them.
You should be able to bring down your no3 with water changes, if notthen I would suspect your WC as a source of no3 and test it before and after you mix the salt.
That foam in that skimmer is to prevent the bubbles from getting out.

[Enigma]

Try Instant Ocean Nitrate Remover if you can find it. It will be a bandaid solution (you'll still need to get the nitrate source figured out), but I can tell you that it does work. It is a biopolymer that you add directly to your system water. It takes a bit of time to work.

http://www.instantocean.com/product-...e-reducer.aspx