Anyways to bring nitrates down quickly?

[Anonymous]

OTHER than a water change? Over the past few weeks I've gone from virtually very little flow, to some decent flow in my tank all due to a broken impeller, and hopefully today I'll get even more flow. Well as a result I've been using a turkey baster to clean off the once beautiful live rocks and unfortunately I think that put all that detritus up into the water column, not all over it got sucked into the overflow to get skimmed out, well unfortunately I've done a nitrate test and I'm reading about 80 or so... the first sign of issues were my anemone who were not opening up at all, so I started to do the gambit of tests.

So bottom line is there a product which removes it from the water ? Now a large water change is NOT an option, because I have about 200 gallons worth of tanks in the system, and quite frankly I don't have any place to store 100+ gallons of water. Granted I have a 120 gallon acrylic tank that's empty downstairs but I'd rather not have to lug it up and try to make the water (besides it'd take 2-3 days just to get the water ready (although that is more of a last set possibility). I do have a DSB in both tanks (135 & 50) and I would hope that would try to keep up with the nitrates, but maybe its just nto quick enough, another idea is to get a couple 5 gallon buckets and fill them with quikrete sand and try to make a couple remote DSB to suck nitrates out, but again that would probably take a bit of time to do as well. So I'm looking for some over the counter binding agent that'll remove it quickly like a charcoal like substance, or maybe even some chemical for the water.

 

[Mihai]

Let me save PLB some time and give you his advice: get a refugium and some plant-life going and you'll be just fine.

Now, for my advice, I would not do anything - your LR and DSB will probably kick in and bring them down slowly over the next week or so. I assume that all inhabitants will be fine at 80ppm of nitrates... I may also be wrong .

M.

 

[Ben1]

You can try N03 minus and let me know how it works.

 

[WRASSER]

I put a denitrator on my 150 it brought it down to 0 ppm and is holding. it also is doing a 15gal. water change a day.
just to let you know i am thinking of putting a refugium on the tank instead of the denitrator. so i can have the natural things to put back into the tank :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Yah went to the LFS store, and funny thing the Kent sales guy was showing off the Kent brand of Phosphate reactor that uses the kent brand of phosphate remover (or any one really, it was mentioned it's a copy of RhowPhos). He mentioned water change ironically, although I'll need to do a big'un, so as soon as I clean up my fish room i might bring the 120 upstairs, bipass the RO membrane and just burn through DI resin like its no tomorrow.

He did mention using a phosphate sponge media, although that it'd take a few weeks to kick in, it was Kent brand too , anyone have any experience with this type of stuff?

Of course making a remote DSB might be another option although I'd hate to have to plumb something else into my system.

Eitherway, yah maybe I should just let it go, and hope my dsb kicks in.

 

[Tackett]

:look: :look:

wheres Bob when you need him?
heres a good analogy:

This thread is to Bob, as the Bat signal is to batman.

anyways:

I dont think I would trust any megafast, fixall way of doing anything, regular waterchanges should keep this problem from ever occuring to someone..... ::narrows eyes suspiciously:: 8)