Hi all,
It’s been a few weeks since my last post, regarding my high nitrate issue I am experiencing.
Originally the issue was thought to have been high nitrate and undetectable phosphate however I have had an ICP and the phosphates are actually 0.1 so this dosnt seem as bad.
However the nitrates have reached a level of 107ppm which I have never seen before, all fish seem fine and swimming nicely, some of my Zoas don’t look too happy but I have had nothing die off yet so I am trying to fix the problem before this happens.
I have tried everything I can think of as follows.
- several large water changes (I look at this as more of a cover up than a solution, I need to find the root cause)
- dosing the required following icp (vanadium, manganese, iron & cobalt) I believe these have a small effect on the nitrogen cycle?
- adding cheato reactor - the cheato is growing like weeds I have harvested a full reactor full in just over a week.
- cleaned all detritus from sump.
- tested RO for nitrate contamination
Can anyone suggest anything obvious I am missing, this seems like an uphill battle at the moment!
Thanks in advance.
It’s been a few weeks since my last post, regarding my high nitrate issue I am experiencing.
Originally the issue was thought to have been high nitrate and undetectable phosphate however I have had an ICP and the phosphates are actually 0.1 so this dosnt seem as bad.
However the nitrates have reached a level of 107ppm which I have never seen before, all fish seem fine and swimming nicely, some of my Zoas don’t look too happy but I have had nothing die off yet so I am trying to fix the problem before this happens.
I have tried everything I can think of as follows.
- several large water changes (I look at this as more of a cover up than a solution, I need to find the root cause)
- dosing the required following icp (vanadium, manganese, iron & cobalt) I believe these have a small effect on the nitrogen cycle?
- adding cheato reactor - the cheato is growing like weeds I have harvested a full reactor full in just over a week.
- cleaned all detritus from sump.
- tested RO for nitrate contamination
Can anyone suggest anything obvious I am missing, this seems like an uphill battle at the moment!
Thanks in advance.