High Nitrates salt
 

jthread wrote on 10/24/2007 3:13 PM:
I took out the BB. Replaced with live rock. Not sure what you meant by
slowly. I'll ask the LFS about my sand.


Slowly means that if your system is dependent on the
bacteria in the bioballs, if there is not enough
live rock to handle things, then you can end up with
a spike in ammonia and/or nitrite.

I did ask about adding more sand and they said that was an old remedy. But
it can release bubbles of nitrogen into the water. I didn't specify calcium
sand though. I'll ask the LFS next time I go~ which hopefully won't be soon.
Every time I go in that place I spend at least $70.


Deep sand bed is not an old remedy.

You can use silica sand, but calcium sand is better.

Bubbles of nitrogen is what you want.

Your LFS does not know as much as they claim.

Wayne Sallee

High Nitrates salt
 

"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
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jthread wrote on 10/24/2007 3:13 PM:
I took out the BB. Replaced with live rock. Not sure what you meant by
slowly. I'll ask the LFS about my sand.


Slowly means that if your system is dependent on the bacteria in the
bioballs, if there is not enough live rock to handle things, then you can
end up with a spike in ammonia and/or nitrite.

I did ask about adding more sand and they said that was an old remedy.
But it can release bubbles of nitrogen into the water. I didn't specify
calcium sand though. I'll ask the LFS next time I go~ which hopefully
won't be soon. Every time I go in that place I spend at least $70.


Deep sand bed is not an old remedy.

You can use silica sand, but calcium sand is better.

Bubbles of nitrogen is what you want.

Your LFS does not know as much as they claim.

Yeah, I'm sure that is true but they do have the experience of running their
store and keeping their stuff healthy. Besides they have better prices than
most other stores around here. Also, I'm sure none of us know everything. I
just take it all in and try to do what I think is the best value.
Personally, I wouldn't own three aquariums and a gf pond but it keeps my
wife happy.

Seems we all agree that the BB gotta go. :-)

Wayne Sallee

salt
 

"jthread" wrote in message ...
stay tuned I'm getting some technical answers

Did you get my coments about marinedepot "free" shipping?

salt
 

"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"jthread" wrote in message
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stay tuned I'm getting some technical answers

Did you get my coments about marinedepot "free" shipping?

Yeah but it's free shipping after $175. I guess I don't get it.

salt
 

"jthread" wrote in message
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"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"jthread" wrote in message
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stay tuned I'm getting some technical answers

Did you get my coments about marinedepot "free" shipping?

Yeah but it's free shipping after $175. I guess I don't get it.

I got my Remora Aqua C from them. Good company. Didn't charge for shipping
and when a part was broken during shipping they quickly rushed me a
replacement.

salt
 

"jthread" wrote in message ...
"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"jthread" wrote in message
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stay tuned I'm getting some technical answers

Did you get my coments about marinedepot "free" shipping?

Yeah but it's free shipping after $175. I guess I don't get it.

I would suggest you try them: add this salt x 3 to your
online shopping cart and see how much you pay :-)
Then compare the same on the pestmart site - you will get it.

salt
 

jthread wrote:

The owner of the store said that the canister in actually the main
problem (gee, you think they would of said so when I bought it).

It depends on what you have in the can. I keep one running on my 125, but I only
use one of the three compartments. I keep filter floss in that to remove algae
from the water when I scrape it off the glass or rock. If your live rock is
doing all of the work of handling the nitrogen cycle, things will stabilize. If
your filter is doing some of the work, you will get some variation in nitrites
or nitrates every time you clean the filter. "Properly" set up wet-dry and, to a
lesser extent, cannister filters are considered to be "nitrate factories."

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

High Nitrates salt
 

jthread wrote:

I did ask about adding more sand and they said that was an old remedy. But
it can release bubbles of nitrogen into the water.

And those bubbles will rise to the surface, burst, and release the nitrogen into
the air. Then it's out of your tank.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

salt
 

"jthread" wrote in message ...
Bought another 5 gal bucket of salt today. I hope it last more than a month.

Thanks for your help. :-)

Well, I just got an e-mail from petsmart - they have even better sale now :-)
All orders above $25 have free shipping, so a single bucket of salt would
ship to your doors for free. Offer lasts to November 7, coupon code FALLFS.

High Nitrates salt
 

Yep, the nitrogen is harmless. In fact the air that
we breath is 78% nitrogen.

Wayne Sallee



George Patterson wrote on 10/24/2007 10:25 PM:
jthread wrote:

I did ask about adding more sand and they said that was an old remedy.
But it can release bubbles of nitrogen into the water.

And those bubbles will rise to the surface, burst, and release the
nitrogen into the air. Then it's out of your tank.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.