I dont even have any livestock either!!
I started a new system a couple years ago, 75g dt, 55g sump. I have a ton of rock and sand in both. Its hard to tell how much because it was all dry when i put it in and was pickin and choosing from rock my brother and i had from the two tanks we broke down years before. Id say probably 100# in the display and 80# in the sump. Maybe more. Theres about 2.5-4" of sand in the dt i think i bought like 80-100# worth of live sand bags from petco, and 3-4" in the sump. Im also running a fluval 405 that i jus changed the media in.
The tank was up and running pretty good for a couple years jus as a FOWLR tank with hopes of corals in the future. I change the filter media every couple months. Then one day every day-every other day a fish would die. Testing only showed phosphate .25-0.5, and nitrate 40-60ppm. I was down to twoo clows for a couple weeks then one clown died. She lived for another couple months before she died. Still testing only showed the same. Then my return pump crapped out and didnt replace it for a few months, i know its bad but i didnt have much time or anything to get and set up a new one, and i didnt have any fish left so.....
Now i got a new return pump but set it up jus circulating the sump instead of running to the display for about a month so i could try and get one if not both tanks better before connecting them. Neither one seemed to be gettin any better so i set the return to go to the display. I had flow i the display w the fluval and a maxi jet 900.
Its been connected for almost a week and still no change with the fluval guts being changed w nitrogen sponge in the bottom tray, fluval prefitler sponges removed and open, cabron and seachem phosguard in all the other chambers so three chambers of each then nitrogen sponge on the top chamber as well. Ive also been heavy dosing with kordon amquel plus ammonia detoxifier that detoxifies nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, chlorine and chlromines for about a week and a half, every other day, about 2-3x the recommended dose to remove 2ppm per 10g. Still my nitrate hasnt come down a bit.
Theres nothing in the tank to produce nitrate why wont it go away lol. Even when there was fish, i was feeding once every 2 or 3 days w the return pump n fluval shut off during feesing so the food didnt all get sucked up in the filters.
Idk why i cant get rid of these damn nitrates!!! Never had any problems w ammonia or nitrite, just nitrate and a little phosphate. I battled redslime for a little while but black outs always worked, then less light afterward the last time it never came back.
Sorry so long, wanted to givenas much info as possible lol
I started a new system a couple years ago, 75g dt, 55g sump. I have a ton of rock and sand in both. Its hard to tell how much because it was all dry when i put it in and was pickin and choosing from rock my brother and i had from the two tanks we broke down years before. Id say probably 100# in the display and 80# in the sump. Maybe more. Theres about 2.5-4" of sand in the dt i think i bought like 80-100# worth of live sand bags from petco, and 3-4" in the sump. Im also running a fluval 405 that i jus changed the media in.
The tank was up and running pretty good for a couple years jus as a FOWLR tank with hopes of corals in the future. I change the filter media every couple months. Then one day every day-every other day a fish would die. Testing only showed phosphate .25-0.5, and nitrate 40-60ppm. I was down to twoo clows for a couple weeks then one clown died. She lived for another couple months before she died. Still testing only showed the same. Then my return pump crapped out and didnt replace it for a few months, i know its bad but i didnt have much time or anything to get and set up a new one, and i didnt have any fish left so.....
Now i got a new return pump but set it up jus circulating the sump instead of running to the display for about a month so i could try and get one if not both tanks better before connecting them. Neither one seemed to be gettin any better so i set the return to go to the display. I had flow i the display w the fluval and a maxi jet 900.
Its been connected for almost a week and still no change with the fluval guts being changed w nitrogen sponge in the bottom tray, fluval prefitler sponges removed and open, cabron and seachem phosguard in all the other chambers so three chambers of each then nitrogen sponge on the top chamber as well. Ive also been heavy dosing with kordon amquel plus ammonia detoxifier that detoxifies nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, chlorine and chlromines for about a week and a half, every other day, about 2-3x the recommended dose to remove 2ppm per 10g. Still my nitrate hasnt come down a bit.
Theres nothing in the tank to produce nitrate why wont it go away lol. Even when there was fish, i was feeding once every 2 or 3 days w the return pump n fluval shut off during feesing so the food didnt all get sucked up in the filters.
Idk why i cant get rid of these damn nitrates!!! Never had any problems w ammonia or nitrite, just nitrate and a little phosphate. I battled redslime for a little while but black outs always worked, then less light afterward the last time it never came back.
Sorry so long, wanted to givenas much info as possible lol
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