29 gallon nano reef build

[JEnelson]

So dose the elite replace the carbon

 

[carey]

The way i run it, yes it does. ooks just like carbon as well, I believe its main ingredient is carbon of some kind

 

[JEnelson]

Ok got both of them in and got my tank all nasty from taking the carbon filter out lol but cleared up in about a hour or two an now it's crystal clear

 

[redsea]

Nice tank!

 

[JEnelson]

Thanks I am trying hard for my first tank new fish black cap basslet

 

[JEnelson]

A little better pic

 

[TLTGF]

Nice addition - any aggression wight the damsel? I'd be cautious if you're still planning the gramma too.

 

[JEnelson]

That is the gramma but yeah the damsel is nice it likes to swim and that's about it the basslet likes to chill in the rocks and sort of swims off the damsel if he gets to close

 

[TLTGF]

Gotcha - I knew it was in the gramma family, but whenever I hear someone say gramma I assume they mean royal gramma... Thought you were adding both

 

[JEnelson]

No just one they say more than one basslet and they get angry so I am just keeping with one

 

[JEnelson]

Yeah it's called the black cap basslet forgot the fancy name for it

 

[JEnelson]

New mushroom

 

[JEnelson]

So everything is going good but how do you drop nitrates

 

[NyteGTI]

water changes and/or macro algae

 

[TLTGF]

I just had the same issue. There are two ways that I heard to lower nitrates: water changes and chemicals. I went with water changes.

I was doing 15-20% weekly water changes and only maintaining the nitrate levels. After doing (2) weekly water changes at 40-50% each, my nitrates dropped from 40ppm - 5ppm. I now do 15% water changes to maintain that.

I was also informed that in a pinch, there are chemicals you can buy that will lower nitrates. People on here verified that it does work.

I'd go with a couple 50% water changes and see what happens.

 

[NyteGTI]

if you're realy high, big water changes are the way to go for immediate results. but long term you're probably gonig to want some cheato or mangroves in your sump to eat up those nitrates.

 

[JEnelson]

Sounds good think I am going to go with water changes

 

[JEnelson]

So I have alot of brown algae that grows quite rapidly how can I bring the brown algae down an get more green purple algae

 

[Ibrahim]

So I have alot of brown algae that grows quite rapidly how can I bring the brown algae down an get more green purple algae

If your calcium and alk levels are good you should be getting Coraline algae. The brown algae is from high phosphates and nitrates

 

[JEnelson]

Yeah I started feeding my fish every other day an my nitrates have shot down so I think it was a little problem of me over feeding twice a day lol now hopefully they will continue to drop and I can get rid of brown and bring in some more purple lol