Posted by gerard on September 18, 2008 under Aquarium Info | 
I would like to post a question tonight for our Aquarium Discussion. I am curious what everyone is doing with their nano aquariums. Are you modding them or just keeping stock systems?
I have a biocube 29 gallon and i removed all sponges and bioballs from the back of my tank. I am just running the stock filter cartridge in chamber 1 and a bag of chemi-pure elite in chamber 2. I was running purigen in chamber 2 but all my local fish stores seem to be out of it now so i just tried boyd’s chemi-pure elite. Still to new to comment on its effectiveness but that’s another post. Anyway i would like to see what other people are doing. Please post comments.
Tags: aquarium, Aquarium Mod's, bioballs, filter cartridge, filter mod, fish marine fish, local fish stores, nano, Nano Reef, purigen, Saltwater Fish, sponges, tank
Posted by gerard on July 31, 2008 under Aquarium Info |
Well i dont really understand it but i finally got my nitrates down to around 0-5ppm. I have never been able to get them below 20ppm. Since i lost all my fish from ich and marine velvet i decided to keep the tank empty for a while and try to get the nitrates down. I have done 6 20% water changes in the last 2 weeks and it finally did it. I dont understand why it takes so much of a water change to change so little in the nitrates.
Now that i have to basically start my tank over, im going to start with 2 clown fish and feed them flakes or pellets. I think the frozen food i was feeding my fish had a hand in the nitrate issue.
Hopefully i can keep them down now. Who knows. Wish me luck.
Tags: aquarium, aquarium water parameters, clown fish, fish marine fish, frozen food, Nano Reef, nitrate, pellets, Saltwater Fish, tank, water change, water changes
