iamivantx
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Alright guys.. After about a month of trying to deal with high nitrate in my 75 gallon salt water fish tank.. I'm seeking advice.
What I've been doing to try to get the nitrates down:
Where am I going wrong, or what else can I do to try to fix this?
- Running for over 1.5 years
- have a 15 - 20 gallon sump.
- Been changing the sock every 3 - 4 days.
- Has several macro algae
- Live rock pieces
- Sand
- Fish
- Clownfish - He's been acting weird. Swimming towards the top on certain days.. but then goes back to the bottom on others?
- Blue damsel
- Salfin
- Coral beauty
- Cardinal
- Sand sifting star fish
- Some type of benny
- Other than that I have some mushroom and other live coral.
What I've been doing to try to get the nitrates down:
- Using prime very sparingly, but have tons
- Hate feeling like I'm just covering up the problem instead of fixing the root cause.
- Recently bought Dr. Times Waste-Away and used 70 ml about 5 days ago.
- Bought Dr. Tim's One and Only used 4 0z a few days ago.
- Have done about a 40% water change last weekend.
- Bought seachem de-nitrate and used half last weekend.. Poured it into the overflow box.
Where am I going wrong, or what else can I do to try to fix this?