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![]() first what is causing the nitrates, do you have a sump or canister filter how much water do you change and how often, did you add some live rock lately what is your amonia at, do you have gravel or bb.
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![]() I've tried this. I had 3, but 2 died within a week and the 3rd about a week after that. I don't know what long term survivability is for those clams as they are from cooler waters.
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![]() Quote:
I do 30gal changes monthly. I have a huge sump (110gal 1/2 to 2/3 full), huge skimmer, 10gal fuge. sugar sand in display, small sized cc in fuge. just picked up some chaeto for the fuge gonna see how that does. cutting back food is not an option, I'm just looking for ways to absorb the nitrates. Quote:
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![]() you should be doing at least 10% a week or 20% every 2 weeks especially if if you want to have a clam,or you can add more rock if you currently are not at 1/3 total volume to rock and, carbon will help also but it has to be replaced more often.
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![]() Clams use up nitrates in an aquarium. Besides, he's not talking clams like Croceas or Maximas...he's talking grocery store clams that are sold per pound...
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![]() I know that I like to feed my 230 fairly heavily and have battled nitrates a time or 2. I found that adding a lot of cheato to the fuge AND harvesting it regularly helped quite a bit to pull them down. I also went to wet - really wet skimming and made sure to top off with some salt water - helped as well. I used to have large sponges in my sump where the fuge spilled over into the final chamber where the skimmer is. Even though I rinsed and scrubbed the heck out of these sponges on a weekly basis I still found that after I removed them completely my nitrates were noticably lower and through a process of elimination narrowed it down to the sponges. I have since removed all sponges from my tanks with the exception of my 2 Nano tanks as I do not skim these tanks. Filter socks are also notorious for nitrates. HTH
Edit - to the original question in your post I have never tried the cleaner clams but do have various crocea and squamosa clams that have also aided in nitrate buildup. |