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| Posted | Nitrasafe any good???? |
| 05-09-2006 13:13 by FISHY |
Is Nitrasafe helpful in reducing nitrates? link here |
| 05-09-2006 13:32 by samy |
you shouldnt realy have nitrate in your tank after 4 months because of the bacteria in the filter. it seems alot of hasle to me going to all that trouble |
| 05-09-2006 13:48 by PaddyD |
Samy,
Unfortunately the bacteria in most filters will note reduce nitrate efficiently. This is because the bacteria that break down Nitrite and amonia are aerobic and the water going through the filter has lots of oxygen. However the bacteria that break down nirates are anaerobic and the conditions in most filters are not suitable for them. So the usual way to reduce nitrates are water changes or chemicals/resins. Fishy, sorry to hijack, I have no experience of the product in question. |
| 05-09-2006 13:57 by FISHY |
tar people.
tell you why i ask, i want to keep discus in a planted tank with other fish. i need to get the gh/kh/ph right for all in question and the way to do this is with a ro/tap water mix. my tap water has high nitrate readings. so after as many ways as getting rid of it as posible |
| 05-09-2006 15:33 by PAULSAI |
i HAD SAME PROBLEM BUT I FOUND THE ONLY WAY I COULD GET IT DOWN TO ZERO WAS TO BUY A NITRATEREDUCTOR (AQUA MEDIC) THEY COME IN DIFFERANT MAKES AND YOU CAN PICK THEM UP ON EBAY OR ANY GOOD FISH / PET SHOP |
| 06-09-2006 01:19 by samy |
well paddy d i have 8 tanks set up at the moment and all my tanks have a zero nitrate level????
i do water changes once a week on all the tanks and the levels have never risen yet! |
| 06-09-2006 22:10 by wymcot |
Anyone who has zero Nitrates must have empty tanks.
Given the end result of the filtration process is nitrate, the fish themselves excrete nitrate from thier gills, plus the nitrate generated by food and detritus, its almost impossible to have zero levels as it can only be removed by water changing or specialist filtration. Even with weekly water changes a certyaion ammount will build up over the intervening week. I have however seen a lot of test kits that supposedly show a zero reading but in reality the range of this reading can be anywhere from 0-10 ppm |
| 06-09-2006 22:15 by pennie2 |
wymcot it obvious the boy refers to NITRITE readings he is simply confused...... |
| 06-09-2006 22:17 by wymcot |
Your possibly right although he didnt say that, but worth mentioning anyway as a lot of people post on here saying thier nitrate levels are zero, I wish mine were  |
| 07-09-2006 16:05 by vu1974 |
fishy
why don't you ust have 100% ro water with remineralised method instead of adding tap water. this will mean that your wc will have no nitrate therotically. however wymcot is right, most tanks will have nitrate. perhaps in a heavily planted tank you won't. |
| 07-09-2006 16:26 by wymcot |
Pointless replying to Fishy he made himself redundant from this forum |
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