High Nitrate

[nwyk153]

Hey, Does high Nitrates affect fish colorations? I have my fox face and Sailfin Tang that seem to have pale color for the past 1 year. Anyway, my Nitrate is above 40ppm. Have been trying to reduce to at least 10ppm(better yet, 0) for months but to no avail.

[TayHongSiang]

Hey, Does high Nitrates affect fish colorations? I have my fox face and Sailfin Tang that seem to have pale color for the past 1 year. Anyway, my Nitrate is above 40ppm. Have been trying to reduce to at least 10ppm(better yet, 0) for months but to no avail.

Keep doing 10% -20%water change every 3 days...until yr nitrate improve; yr nitrate will drop. Use siphon to suck out the waste on the sand bed.

I think there's some filter medium u can get with FR in the long run to control them.

[Kalib]

Generally, for fish high nitrates(>50ppm) is not recommended.

What sort of filter media are you using? They do play a part in nitrate levels. I used to use bioballs in my previous 4ft setup and face high nitrate problems, now i only use sand + liverock, i don't face any high nitrate problem anymore.

You can invest in a denitrator to reduce nitrates or get some biohome as filter media. Biohome is designed to allow dentrification to take place which reduces nitrates.

[TayHongSiang]

Keep doing 10% -20%water change every 3 days...until yr nitrate improve; yr nitrate will drop. Use siphon to suck out the waste on the sand bed.

I think there's some filter medium u can get with FR in the long run to control them.

Biohome is good...i m using it. Get one box n chuck it into yr sump.