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Posted: July 30 2009 at 4:32pm |
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Whats the Best way to quickly remove Nitrates? I just recently (less than a week) setup a 210 from a 150 and my nitrates seem to be right around 20... hopefully it will settle down....
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Posted: July 30 2009 at 10:28pm |
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Water change.
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Posted: July 30 2009 at 10:31pm |
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H20 and a bit of work!
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Posted: July 30 2009 at 10:31pm |
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Time LOL (just went thru all that... twice!)
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Posted: July 31 2009 at 1:22am |
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As dion said a water change will fix it the fastest. After that you just have to let your biological filtration catch back up to your tanks demands and your excess die off with the move.
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Posted: July 31 2009 at 6:31am |
And 20 ppm is typically nothing to worry about. It's not perfect but not bad either. FYI, a 10% water change will drop it to 18 ppm, so water changes are really a waste of time when pollutants are already this low. 
Just stop feeding for a few days and if you are really concerned leave all the lights (tank and Refugium) on 24 hrs a day - the tank will be fine.
What you are doing is worrying too much about little things that can fix themselves. My experience with you is that you are messing too much with your tank. Now that the move is complete, please leave it alone and let it take care of itself. Natural processes of growth and biodegration do work very well by themselves if the hobbyist can curb the urge to mess with it.
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Posted: September 05 2009 at 8:20am |
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Well I've been doing 10% water changes weekly and still have a decent amount of nitrates (20+) I added Nitrate sponge by kent but that doesn't seem to be helping much, I know it takes a while but its been more than a month at 20+?
The only difference between this tank and my old 150 is that I didn't put sand in the refugium could that be part of the reason?
also my sand bed in my tank it self is not as deep as it used to be in the 150...
thoughts? suggestions?
Does anyone run a nitrate reactor or?
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Posted: September 05 2009 at 8:27am |
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more time, more water changes... I tried a bunch of stuff too... but IMO it really was the time factor
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Posted: September 05 2009 at 12:28pm |
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my guess is that when I set up the new tank I put in all new sand so it seems like I pretty much had to start over as far as the nitrate eating bacteria go =) just wish they would multiply more quickly I also added sand to my refugium today hopefully to give more surface area to bacteria etc...
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Posted: September 05 2009 at 1:17pm |
Larger water changes are the key. Check out: http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=32772Denitrification is almost non-existent in new setups and is rarely adequate in mature setups IMO.
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Posted: September 06 2009 at 1:25am |
If it makes you feel any better my nitrates were sky high for a month after I moved a 330g it was above 100. I did several water changes that were 100g plus, I did this over a few hours but I dropped my nitrates down and then they would respike. It takes time to get everything going again when you move tanks around. Just stay calm things will be okay. I didnt have anything die when it was that high, my coral didnt like me but they lived and are growing like crazy again. Just do water changes, however time is the only thing that is going to drop it down really. Until everything has grown you will respike after water changes. I still have about a 5 in my tank.
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Posted: September 06 2009 at 10:50am |
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Water change is the fastest, there isn't any other quick fix period, long term there are many ways to extend the time between changes but that is another post.
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Posted: September 25 2009 at 11:56am |
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Time but you can use AZ-NO3 works great and is really cheap, my nitrates were 20 too and i got 0 in just one week but carefull with the skimmer works like crazy
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Posted: September 25 2009 at 12:50pm |
Cheap? Sure if you have a pico. 
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