How old is your tank, what do you have in it?Anyone have any suggestions on how to lower my nitrate levels in a 90 gallon aquarium with live rock?
ryguy said:- refugium with macros
- reduce feedings to every second day
- feed what the fish will consume in 3 minutes, no more
- pwc's
Not to butt in here. What all is in your refugium? I am putting one in next week and was wondering what people advise.melosu58 said:A wet dry is commonly called a nitrate factory. Not that they are bad because they do provide a purpose and that is to turn ammonia and nitrites into a less toxic end product called nitrates. They can only be removed by the 4 answers that were given by ryguy. They also make denitrators that I had for several years on my 55. They did seem to lower them but did not get rid of them because of the huge load that the wet dry was producing. I now have 0 nitrates in my 125 because of my refuge but not every one has one. This is what I do to maintain it is 1) feed every other day. Been doing this for eight years.2) PWC every week.3) Refugium does the rest. I can only tell you IME. It works for me.
By the way Welcome to AA
How large is the clown and angel? What happened to your 2 small clown fish & 1 porcipine puffer? If you just recently took back the puffer that was probably the biggest no3 contributor to your tank since they are extremely messy. What kind of angel did you get?90gallon said:Currently there is 1 clown fish and 1 angel along with 3 shrimps, hermit crabs and a couple of snails. These guys are getting fed every other day (frozen food; prime reef, one cube).