Nitrate spike

[ineke]

I did my usual monthly water testing yesterday and my 2 biggest tanks have nitrates of 40. Yes I know I over fed these tanks because I had higher numbers of shrimp and was trying out some new foods and water additives. I've done some water changes and the nitrates have come down to 20 which is still too high in my books! If I have mulberry leaves in the tank and don't feed anything else - just more leaves when these are gone- what's the longest I could go without feeding anything else when there are babies in the tank. Both tanks are well established and have good biofilm on the back glass and lots of plants and mosses.

I have recently reintroduced Biozyme , mineral powder and Beta glucans ( an immune booster) but continued to feed as normal and I think this may have contributed to the excess food load. Of course this would be in the Crystal and TB tanks so I need to go slowly with the water changes but will do some more over the next few days.

i will use this as a trial to see how many mulberry leaves I need to have on hand for when I go on holidays in January. You would think I would have learnt by now:dejection: such a silly mistake:stupid:

[JPN07]

Hi ineke. Try using macropore. Very similar to purigen but much cheaper. I use it and works great.

[ineke]

I have purigen I didn't know it would help for a nitrate spike but will get the trusty old power filter out and run it for a few hours and see how it goes. Thanks for that. :encouragement:

[BiGGiE]

Im trialling a filter atm that reduces nitrates by charged titanium plates

May be something worth looking at =]

[ineke]

could be very interesting Biggie:encouragement:

[BlueBolts]

Im trialling a filter atm that reduces nitrates by charged titanium plates

May be something worth looking at =]

Sounds interesting, any pics/details…..I have denitrators in my breeding racks, and reckon they'r great !

[BiGGiE]

I'll start a thread on it and share photos etc. The filter is a Hydra from Ocean free and it has a positive and negative charged titanium plate that separates the ions as the water passes. Has anyone heard or tried it?