Clams for nutrient redux???

[Proteus]

I'm suprised you have nitrates at all with six clams.

I have 7 clams with prodibio at 3 months using tap water. With 0 nitrates. I feed clams weekly as I worry they won't have enough nutrients to live

[doch]

[quote=reefwars;698637]an ats is a algae turf scrubber and its basically a place to grow hair algae and it will in turn feed on your nitrates, the hair algae is removed weekly and as are the nitrates it has. [\QUOTE]

Thanks Denny!! I'm on it!!! Finally had time to check out these links... this sounds perfect... and cheap!! I still want to run the fuge for pods though.... I'll put the whole thing together... with my 7 or 8 clams.... and see what does the best. Back when I was doing tank maintenance, I remember seeing a fuge in a house that was chalk full of macro algae, and there were TONS of brine(????) shrimp living in there. Pretty cool.

[MarkoD]

Ive seen people have a tank full of Xenia for reduction

[TimT]

Clams work great for nitrate reduction but you do need a few of them. Here is a link to a friends tank. He didn't use VSV or pellets or GFO... just clams. At one point he had 55 of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwW0H93F_u4

btw The 5" to 6" Ultra Maxima clams will be arriving in a couple of weeks. They will be available at fine reef keeping stores across Canada.

[doch]

Originally Posted by Titus99

I'm suprised you have nitrates at all with six clams.

I have 7 clams with prodibio at 3 months using tap water. With 0 nitrates. I feed clams weekly as I worry they won't have enough nutrients to live

I actually only started prodibio a little over 1 month ago, so here's to hoping that it catches up. Before that, due to the skimmer crack/basement flood I had run for about 2 months without even a skimmer, so I'm sure that things went a little haywire due to that.

Originally Posted by TimT

Clams work great for nitrate reduction but you do need a few of them. Here is a link to a friends tank. He didn't use VSV or pellets or GFO... just clams. At one point he had 55 of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwW0H93F_u4

btw The 5" to 6" Ultra Maxima clams will be arriving in a couple of weeks. They will be available at fine reef keeping stores across Canada.

Tim, that is the tank that I had come across that made me scheme about this little plan!! Also, I've already purchased one of these ultra maximas you speak of, and if they're as nice as they sound, I'll be grabbing another when they show up... I've been patiently waiting... WHAT'S TAKING SO LONG!?!?!?!?!? hahaha... just kidding.

[Proteus]

"I actually only started prodibio a little over 1 month ago, so here's to hoping that it catches up. Before that, due to the skimmer crack/basement flood I had run for about 2 months without even a skimmer, so I'm sure that things went a little haywire due to that."

Keep on it with prodibio. At 8 weeks is when I noticed that I was spending less time cleaning glass. I love the product