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    Continuing to fight Nitrates!?! Me too.

    I'm not sure why.. and would love to find out more about the causes of it.. But i've been set up now and running for a good 6 months. Yet I still am fighting Nitrates. They drift up to 20ppm and I have to do partial and often 50% water changes to hold off the rise. I don't overfeed.. I don't...
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    Red Slime Algea In a Refugium? Good or Bad?

    Hello all. I've a 70Gal Reef Tank with 140 lbs of live rock, and inhabitants. I have a backpack skimmer, and a backpack refugium. The refugium has it's light on 24/7 and the macro algea (calupra, and one that looks like green thread.) I've started to get what I can only guess is "Red Slime...
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    What causes constant Nitrate increase?

    Hello All! I have started a 55 gal reef tank, with 110 lbs of tampabay saltwater LR. It's been up for about 10 weeks now. My ammonia is at .25 My nintrites are at : 0 my PH is 8.2 and the nitrates keep rising. Currently 20. I've been maintaining them with often water changes, but am unable...
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    Help me figure out this system please!

    I recently got a 55 gallon deep showtank, with a wet/dry overflow sump system for $100! The previous owner lost the skimmer, and is unable to give me any details about the tank. I'm needing help backwards engineering this system so I can correctly intergrate a Protein Skimmer...
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