Lol I was agreeing with you as the other guys said your statement was false and ignorant. I agreed with what you said
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AGGRESSIVE CICHLID TANK WITH NO AGGRESSION
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Lol I was agreeing with you as the other guys said your statement was false and ignorant. I agreed with what you said
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I'll write what I wrote before: Terracotta pots cannot remove the nitrates from that bioload. What test kit are you using? How many days after a water change are you doing the test?
Keeping nitrates out of the dreaded Red Zone is the bane of keeping cichlids. If you could keep them under 50 with that stocking I'd be impressed, but zero!? This is why overstocking isn't a viable solution to SA/CA aggression. It creates an intractable water quality issue.
Keeping nitrates out of the dreaded Red Zone is the bane of keeping cichlids. If you could keep them under 50 with that stocking I'd be impressed, but zero!? This is why overstocking isn't a viable solution to SA/CA aggression. It creates an intractable water quality issue.
You are wrong about the chlorine. Please read my previous posts about it as well as other forum members agreeance with my comments. You are DEAD wrong about chlorine/chloramine being ok. Please stop with your misinformed comments about it.
If this can't be discuessed rationally I'll be forced to close this thread. I'm not going to babysit this thing and clean up/edit posts.
I'm surprised that a mod hasn't posted in regards to the theory (cough-cough) that a few terracotta blocks can reduce ones nitrates to zero in a tank that most would consider overstocked.
How about some rational discussion about that? I mean we wouldn't want new members to MFK to read that kind of misinformation, and actually believe that all one has to do is place a few terracotta pots in their tank and they too could have an overstocked tank with zero nitrates, would we?
How about some rational discussion about that? I mean we wouldn't want new members to MFK to read that kind of misinformation, and actually believe that all one has to do is place a few terracotta pots in their tank and they too could have an overstocked tank with zero nitrates, would we?
The addition of terracota will not in of itself do anything to reduce nitrates. However as it relates to additional suface area for the colinization of benificial bacteria the more places for BB to establish itself will allow for greater conversion of ammonia to nitrite and nitrite to nitrate which should then be either consumed by plants and or removed by water changes. As far as surface area goes there are better options then terracota pots/blocks the greater the bio-capacity of your system the greater the bio-load it will be able to effectivly handle........................Happy?
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I posted earlier in this thread options in reducing nitrates that do not mention terracotta. I forget what page it's on.
My three previously mentioned options of reducing nitrates:
1. plants (chaeto in marine) absorb and use nitrates. converts to N2
2. Anaerobic bacteria in Deep Sand Beds (DSB). I am not going to debate the pros and cons of using a DSB. That is up to the hobbyist. All you have to know is anaerobic bacteria does denitrify nitrates.
3. Water changes
I will also mention that prime DOES denitrify nitrates in an established aquarium. I actually tried this method this past weekend on a test tank. My experiment involved using a tank and letting the nitrates build up. My readings were: ammonia- 0 ppm, nitrite- 0 ppm, nitrate- 20 ppm. A 10% water changed occured with an extra dosing of prime (beyond the recommended dosage for the water being added to the new water, i.e. 5mL for x amount of water. I added more to that x amount. The purpose was to see how much I could reduce my nitrates using prime. My readins were 0 across teh board. This is just a summary of what I did. Take it as you will. I dont personally like the idea of just adding prime to get rid of a nitrate problem because you arent figuring out why the nitrates are so high in the first place.
If anyone else has other options in reducing nitrates please share them
I posted earlier in this thread options in reducing nitrates that do not mention terracotta. I forget what page it's on.
My three previously mentioned options of reducing nitrates:
1. plants (chaeto in marine) absorb and use nitrates. converts to N2
2. Anaerobic bacteria in Deep Sand Beds (DSB). I am not going to debate the pros and cons of using a DSB. That is up to the hobbyist. All you have to know is anaerobic bacteria does denitrify nitrates.
3. Water changes
I will also mention that prime DOES denitrify nitrates in an established aquarium. I actually tried this method this past weekend on a test tank. My experiment involved using a tank and letting the nitrates build up. My readings were: ammonia- 0 ppm, nitrite- 0 ppm, nitrate- 20 ppm. A 10% water changed occured with an extra dosing of prime (beyond the recommended dosage for the water being added to the new water, i.e. 5mL for x amount of water. I added more to that x amount. The purpose was to see how much I could reduce my nitrates using prime. My readins were 0 across teh board. This is just a summary of what I did. Take it as you will. I dont personally like the idea of just adding prime to get rid of a nitrate problem because you arent figuring out why the nitrates are so high in the first place.
If anyone else has other options in reducing nitrates please share them
