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How to raise PH value?


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Bro I suggest you invest in a more efficient protein skimmer... got a feeling you have too much things rotting/decaying in your tank... so no matter how much water you change... your NO3 will still remain high  :D

erm i just change from a lousy jebo to weipro 2011 only last mth, cuz jebo always jam and water leaks....

hmm i cleaned my canister well that day, emptied most coral chips, bio balls and ceremic rings to only a few in one tray...i remember cleaning lots of mince meat noodle soup look alike :D

the rest is just sponge and rowa

2 Feet Tank: (Decom Feb 2015)
-Lightings : Pharos LED light 90W with wireless controller
-Chiller : Arctica 1/10HP with H2Ocean Flow Pump 2000

-Wavemaker : Vortech MP10ES
-Skimmer : Bubble Magus NAC 3.5

-Return Pump : Eheim Compact 3000
-Reactor – TLF150 (Mod) with NP Biopellet
-Reactor – TLF150 with Rowaphos


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Rotting/decaying can also be things/nutrients that are not visible to our eyes for example urine/discharge from fishes and corals... these things create Nitrate in the end... so a lot of us rely on efficient skimmers to remove them once they were discharges/released into the water. We will not let it turn into Ammonia --> Nitrite --> Nitrate. So with a inefficient skimmer, all your wastes will have to go through the full cycle therefore in the end... Nitrate factory. Water change can only help that much... really.

For example:

100% tank water = 60 NO3

After 10% change of water (that is if you are using RO/DI water):

90% old tank water = 54 NO3

If you are using tap water (known to have traces of NO3):

90% old tank water = 57 - 58 NO3

So in the end... you are just wasting salt (so to speak).

Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica

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