Posted by gerard on May 12, 2010 under Aquarium Info | 
Day 4 and the tank is looking pretty good. I checked the water parameters last night and they are as follows:
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
ph: 8.0 (I added some marine buffer)
nitrate: 5-10
I took some more pics of the live rock. I think the store gave me some live rock that has coral growing on it. I think my LFS thought it was dead coral but the polyps are popping up under the moonlights every night.
Posted by gerard on January 9, 2009 under Products & Reviews |
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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.
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