Does live rock remove nitrates?

[reptile guy]

And how often would you dose that and is that what you do with your tank? Would be an interesting experiment even though my nitrates so far have always been low

Originally Posted by sphelps

I believe the rule of thumb is 1ml per 100 gallons.

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by reptile guy

And how often would you dose that and is that what you do with your tank? Would be an interesting experiment even though my nitrates so far have always been low

Daily, it would be better if you could find pure ethanol, but vodka is probably the next best thing. I've never heard of any problems using this method, just watch for new bacteria films, if a film begins to form somewhere is it's a sing of overdosing so cut the dosage down.

It's also better if you can create a low oxygen zone and dose directly into it. A coil dinitrifier can work well for this, these have a bad reputation but they do work but you have to dose the carbon source into them and you need to achieve the proper flowrate.