Nitrates help Please

[dareefguy]

Originally Posted by Brent F

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.

Nice.. Doing this by the pail full could be like work. But I guess I could set up a pump and push it into the sump.