How To Lower Nitrates In A Reef Tank

[@detaildz]

Beautiful clean and well layed out store! If I lived closer to you I would buy from you! Bob

[@tonycloseukreef3799]

Thanks March this video has been a great help 👍

[@nickm9922]

Saw your crashed tank as first video yesterday, sad to see it as its former glory... subbed now though, well deserved!

[@jonathonrobinson44]

Have you tried the new Hanna High Range Nitrate Tester? Way easier to use than the Low Range one.

[@aquatic413]

That would be an awesome video. Talking about how and why more matured tanks are easier to keep stable and bio diversity.

[@Richs_reef]

Hanna have a new Nitrate test kit which is much simpler and returns a broader range so worth checking out. Quote of this episode: “Oh Shit what happened to that Blasto?! Ok anyways“ 🤣 keep up the great content March!

[@johnatella8498]

What is a light you would recommend for growing chaeto that isn't expensive?

[@clydester8108]

I've tried all techniques over the years. By far the most effective is a sulfur denitrator. Especially if you want to overstock.

[@simmo56able]

Hi March, im interested to know how you maintain the specific gravity level in your tanks when you are constantly removing water when sales are made. Are the tanks topped off with salt water or RODI which would have the affect of lowering SG?

[@originalgamesta6268]

@Fragbox Corals why are canister filters not recommended for reef tanks?

[@rudra7615]

The bacteria approach is interesting..I read Aquaforest NP Pro, produces bacteria that eats the nitrates and then corals eat the bacteria, it isn't the skimmer that removes them, thus allowing the corals to colour up and grow as well. Haven't seen anyone dive into the topic in more detail, but the bacteria approach seems logical and clean

[@ericsfishingadventures4433]

Check out Dr Tim's channel he has endless information about these topics, by far a must watch channel!

[@rudra7615]

@@ericsfishingadventures4433 isn't Dr Tim's just for cycling and balancing bacteria that uses ammonia in the tank. He covers nitrate consuming bacteria too?

[@jamesquinton4066]

Another great vid..how about a vid on the difference between wet and dry skim and advantages of both methods?

[@azhari06]

I have 50ppm in my 65g mix reef. I dont have any algae prob and corals are growing. I’m confused.

[@tazccl]

My nitrates run 30 and po4 0.03. I have a 20 gallon water box with 4 fish. Everything looks good and I do a 20% water change every Sunday. What are your thoughts on running a refugium in the middle chamber?

[@Waynerock77]

I’ll take nigh nitrates over high po4 anyday. Phospates are the real killer. I have found that you can bottom out po4 and as long as no3 is ok you won’t get Dino. It’s a tight line to walk but I don’t mind no3. No3 is a bitch to drop though and the best way I know is big water changes unlike po4 we have some good options and most almost work too well but no3 is tricky. Don’t sweat it if you are less than 15

[@chefjoel21]

Wayne rock: I agree I’ll take high nitrates all day , my nitrates runs at 40, but phosphate I can’t fuck with it’s a killer and I’ve lost a lot of corals because of high phosphate. That’s a struggle for me with my tank right now is keeping it low. Any suggestions?

[@Waynerock77]

@@chefjoel21 I always have had kept a bag of chemipure elite in the sump and it has GFO but a small amount of it. It drops higher levels and keeps it low without dropping it too fast like if you where using straight GFO. It might take a few months to get it where you want it but it’s much more gentle on the corals. I change the bag out about every 2 months to keep it working well. Po4 stays at .003 doing this. It also has carbon as a plus but that exhaust it’s self usually before the 1 month mark but the GFO keeps going. It will not effect NO3 which is probably a good thing because you don’t have to worry about both going too low. NO3 is kept in check with ZEOBAK. I use a couple drops every couple weeks. That’s essentially carbon dosing but once again on a smaller scale. There are many other options for carbon dosing of course but I don’t sweat the NO3 till it’s 15+. I wish I could post a tank shot so you can see how my tank looks and you know I am not Bull shitting you. You can always look on R2R under my name if you wanna see what I got

[@chefjoel21]

@@Waynerock77 thanks brother that helps a lot and I appreciate it I’ll definitely check you out maybe I’ll share a picture of my tank also.

[@84latinray]

​@chefjoel21 dr Tim's waste away it dropped my phosphates, but before you dose make sure you have a clean filter pad to work 💯

[@jerrya1356]

Where can I find that Vitalis food ? I am in the United States .

[@StNovaSt]

In the same vein as refugiums but more efficient and space saving is an Algae turf scrubber. Greetings from the Caribbean March.

[@Botzz28]

It crazy I been seeing the opposite lately with people running high nutrient tanks with crazy success… seems like the low nutrient days are over with .. the color and growth in high nitrate and phos tanks are crazy

[@hurricaneaquatics]

Only thing you'll get with high phosphates is terrible algae. Best way to increase your phosphates? Use tap water. You'll have 95% less nuisance algae by starting your tank and maintaining it with RODI.

[@chefjoel21]

Definitely make a video on how to lower phosphate.

[@luka5909]

zeolit rocks in reactor works amazing. zeolit removes amonia that cant be broken down to nitrate and it keeps the for rising and if you add refugium macro algae will remove existing nitrate. i used that formula on my skimmer less reef until i switched for skimmer. i switched to skimmer just to raise my ph. now i need to dose nitrate and i needed to dose nitrate when i used zeolit and refugium method

[@anniejefferson4642]

Microbactor7 and reef fuel. Run fuge light a lil longer. Works like a charm. Or thrown some clams in.

[@jasoncolliver3648]

Sounds like many of your viewers are running at close to 0. Lots of peeps having trouble with Xenia from yesterday's video about keeping Xenia.

[@smorris3606]

So I need HELP PLEASE.. I inherited a very advanced reef tank from my dad when he passed in 2020 .. it basically self maintained up until a couple months ago when power went out due to storm then not too long after that prob a month +/- My robot vac ran over the power strip and everything was off overnight we lost a lot of our fish with this nitrate spike we were left with our Nemo fish and during a 90% h20 chg found the sea cucumber ... we have mushrooms and some anenamie (i believe thier called the nemo home and similar to the mushrooms) sorry I'm still learning.... but since the 90% h20 chg I've been religiously cleanin the sand and doing that with recycling the tanks own water & using the nitrate treatment solution per its suggested schedule as I'm not confident doin full h20 chgs myself yet... yesterday my sea cucumber came out of the sand and now is super tiny not moving on the top of the sand in the corner of the tank... pls help how do I get these nitrates back down asap I do not want to loose this tank 😢

[@aquaticbobs]

What happened to the blasto?

[@djrelz]

do a video on controlling ammonia

[@fragboxcorals]

In an established tank we don't control for ammonia

[@ericsfishingadventures4433]

Don't forget that marine fish excrete ammonia through their respiratory process, quite a bit more than most people actually understand or even know about, just a quick tip.

[@andrew5762]

March Hanna has a New nitrate test kit out very easy to do ,just tear the packet and read 👍😄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@thetallreeferandson.2312]

How to reduce algae on glass . Or best algae cleaner

[@4SunnyinMiami2]

Great info! 😑 My nitrates with Salifert are 2 ppm., And I do have a light amount brown algae on the rocks. Maybe that's why.

[@barrysamuel3750]

can a 100 skimmer kept up a 125 tank

[@yibofan6855]

When I used cotton gauze pad as mechanical filtration for my pico the nitrate was almost always zero. But the ph was always low. Until a day I realized how cutton breaking down by bacteria actually inadvertently act as carbon dosing. The lowering effect happens in three days when new cutton filter was added. But I have to stop using it because it really brings down the ph and end up killing acropora. And other corals don't grow either except for montiporas.

[@bbybby91]

Mines sitting at 40ppm so I started up my fuge with some chaeto to help bring them back down, I have to do a water change later too. I have some GHA on my rocks but it’s starting to clear up now.

[@rudra7615]

How much has it dropped since starting the fuge?

[@Messier87_M87]

Did you notice any browning in your corals with the 40ppm nitrate?

[@bbybby91]

@@Messier87_M87 no, all my corals are bright and they seem to be thriving and growing, two of my large frogspawn colonies have splitting heads and new branches growing.

[@bbybby91]

@@rudra7615 fuge hasn’t been running long enough to have much of an effect, been running for a week now.

[@lawrenceskegz781]

Show us the basement 😉

[@SpiegNet]

sugar dosing or NitratR

[@madshepsreef282]

My nitrates are 0, phosphates .02, tanks 10 weeks old no water change since set up, 15 fish, 20 snails, 1 long spine urchin and a starfish. I used 80 maxspec bio balls that were from my old old system, 3 bottles of dr Tim’s one and only. I did a fish/dr Tim’s cycling with mollys. Ugly stage lasted a week.

[@rudra7615]

nitrates are 0? Something is gonna blow up in your tank bro

[@stefanmol7630]

How to lower phosphate?

[@jeremybw2180]

I have found that low nitrates can make your phosphates stay elevated even as you carbon dose. Nitrates help in phosphate reduction, at least, naturally using bacteria. If you use a media then you are doing it chemically and nitrates are irrelevant to the process.

[@borinvlogs]

I AM STRUGGLING TO RAISE NO3.

[@robertruffin4272]

Lamotte nitrate tester waaayyyyy better than salifert

[@jianzhao8391]

The redsea nopox have lower price in canada .

[@ericwilson4553]

You are in video mode! Better write these ideas down.

[@rudra7615]

Are you like in my mind dude?! Like most of your videos when you release them..are things I am going through WTF! Or maybe it is because I just started a new tank and your videos are just timely as you are also running new tanks...but f*** it! I'll go with you in my mind.

[@flatiron8462]

I couldn’t watch. Made me dizzy moving around.

[@topbooker]

Get to the point