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Nitrate problem

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steve8855
, 10-22-2011 at 01:03 PM (1704 Views)
hey guys soo ive been doing weekly 5 gallon water changes on my 65 gallon tank and the nitrates have been slowly creeping up and now they are getting way to high at 20ppm tested today.

I am planning on getting a biopellet reactor in december just a little short on cash right now.

Can anyone give me any advice on how many gallons i should be changing on a weekly or monthly basis??

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  1. baker.shawn's Avatar
    hey steve, how long has your tank been setup? can you give us more info to work from like inhabitants and recent changes? feeding how much and what, when?
  2. steve8855's Avatar
    so my tanks been set up for a little over 1 year

    I have 2 clowns, 1 sandsifting sleeper goby, 1 yellow clown goby, 3 chomis, mandarin goby, 1 suncoral 2 pumping xinias, 5 narissi sails 6 cirth snail 10 blue hermit 3 astes snails, and 1 mexica turbo snail.

    I feed the fish a total of 1/2 cube brine and 1/2 cube myssis every day
    and for my sun coral i feed 1 cube mysiss every second day.
  3. baker.shawn's Avatar
    hmm this sure is strange,

    how about filtration, skimmer? how much live rock? do you have good flow?
    are you using RODI? try testing your source water
  4. melev's Avatar
    Steve, do a 50% water change. That will cut them in half. Each time you do a 50% water change, it will do this. If you did a 30g water change tomorrow, it would measure 10ppm. Do it again in two days, and it'll be 5ppm.

    You don't have to do this all the time, but for now a couple of big ones will help get them under control until you can get that NP reactor up.