How do you manage your nitrates/phosphates in such a small aquarium?

[Jonathan Tan]

Hmmm have been using the biofuel awhile... Nitrates drop to 0ppm hard , on the first day o.o ... From 160ppm to 0ppm within 3hrs.

Have been like that for 3 days (0ppm) [Maybe because I remove all the fishes, crabs and snails remain and I do feed them]

Hope this helps

Cool, will probably try it out!

[ytpmzy]

Cool, will probably try it out!

Wish you luck haha . All the best

[Jonathan Tan]

Wish you luck haha . All the best

Thanks bro!

[Tian85]

issue is with your tap water. change to distill water for top up and maintain your WC regime and you are good to go.

[Kingking]

Hmmm have been using the biofuel awhile... Nitrates drop to 0ppm hard , on the first day o.o ... From 160ppm to 0ppm within 3hrs.

Have been like that for 3 days (0ppm) [Maybe because I remove all the fishes, crabs and snails remain and I do feed them]

Hope this helps

Was reading about this Biofuel thing.... think it will helps with bringing my consistent 10PPM Nitrates down.

Is the Biofuel available only in AM or many LFS can get, any advice?

Sorry to hijack this thread.

[ytpmzy]

Was reading about this Biofuel thing.... think it will helps with bringing my consistent 10PPM Nitrates down.

Is the Biofuel available only in AM or many LFS can get, any advice?

Sorry to hijack this thread.

hahaha ... sorry didn't check the forum in awhile ... Freshnmarine has it i got it from them ... not sure about the rest

Cheers

[Dez Ching]

Hmmm have been using the biofuel awhile... Nitrates drop to 0ppm hard , on the first day o.o ... From 160ppm to 0ppm within 3hrs.

Have been like that for 3 days (0ppm) [Maybe because I remove all the fishes, crabs and snails remain and I do feed them]

Hope this helps

Hi Bro, can check with you? Did the Nitrate level remain 0ppm after you start to input live stocks back in tank?

Can update to share your views of Biofuel? Thanks.

[ytpmzy]

Hi Bro, can check with you? Did the Nitrate level remain 0ppm after you start to input live stocks back in tank?

Can update to share your views of Biofuel? Thanks.

Nah too heavy stock for me ... had to switch to bio reactor ... =.= Haha

[Dez Ching]

Nah too heavy stock for me ... had to switch to bio reactor ... =.= Haha

I see. I thought that can be the key to mine… so your opinion, Bio reactor helps to keep Nitrate levels stable to what you had wanted?

[Guest]

For a small tank which has space constraint maybe can also use biosphere to help reduce No3 since it doesn't really need to run in a reactor.

[ytpmzy]

I see. I thought that can be the key to mine… so your opinion, Bio reactor helps to keep Nitrate levels stable to what you had wanted?

Have yet to test ... Started the reactor last Sunday ... Planning to test next week , will let you know the results if u are interested.

[Kingking]

hahaha ... sorry didn't check the forum in awhile ... Freshnmarine has it i got it from them ... not sure about the rest

Cheers

Thanks for the info. Got one bottle from FNM yesterday.

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[shy88devil]

Thanks for the info. Got one bottle from FNM yesterday.

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Kindly update us does it really help to lower down n maintain Nitrates in our tank .. hopefully able to hear good news from you haha

[Kingking]

Sure just dose first 4ml in my 76 gallon yesterday. Will take a reading tonight since the Nitrate 10PPM has been like 4-6 months already.

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[ytpmzy]

I see. I thought that can be the key to mine… so your opinion, Bio reactor helps to keep Nitrate levels stable to what you had wanted?

Have yet to test ... Started the reactor last Sunday ... Planning to test next week , will let you know the results if u are interested.

Have been running for a week ... Nitrates now dropped from 160ppm to 25ppm (salifert test kit ^.^ ) Hopefully 0ppm by next wekk haha

Hope this info helps .

[shy88devil]

Have been running for a week ... Nitrates now dropped from 160ppm to 25ppm (salifert test kit ^.^ ) Hopefully 0ppm by next wekk haha

Hope this info helps .

Great news for you !!! Does you dose daily or ?

[ytpmzy]

Great news for you !!! Does you dose daily or ?

I am using bio pellet reactor ... So it's kinda like daily dosage haha ... Bio fuel has enough kick to maintain nitrate at 40ppm as compared to 160ppm ... but it wasn't enough for me haha ... My aim is below 20

[SubzeroLT]

If nitrates is high,

The dose for biofuel is 5ml for every 50 gallon (~200L) daily

The dose for Microbacter7 is 5ml for every 25gallon (~ 100L) daily

I believe that if your goal is to bring it down to below 20, you can either

1) Increase to the recommend dosage of Brightwell BioFuel + Microbacter7

2) And/Or add more bio pellet in the reactor (more surface for bacteria)

[ytpmzy]

Recently tested... Bio pellet reduced the tank NO3 to 2.5ppm ^.^ (with salifert test kit)....

Running about 50ml of biopellet for 20gallons ...

Hopefully this information helps.

Cheers

[shy88devil]

Recently tested... Bio pellet reduced the tank NO3 to 2.5ppm ^.^ (with salifert test kit)....

Running about 50ml of biopellet for 20gallons ...

Hopefully this information helps.

Cheers

Nice =D seem like using biofuel n mb7 plus bio pellets is a good combo .. will try to upgrade my tank to fit in extra reactor haha

[Kelvin Ang]

Need to off the skimmer when using mb7 and biofuel ??