Hi Ajay,

Your problem is you are using a filtration system that is suited
to fresh water but unsuitable for salt water. First of you must use
RO/DI or distilled water NOT tap water, get about 250 to 300 lbs of
live rock, then a deep sand bed, I would add a sump/fug. under your
tank about 50 gall or more ( the more water you have in the system the
more stable it will be )and put the deep sand bed in the fug, about 6"
or more of live sand then you can have about 2 or 3" in the display
tank, the deep sand bed can be made up of 75% aragonite play sand and
25% live sand, It will soon all be live, When this system has cycled
and matured ( can take a few months ) you should have no more water
problems and little if any need for water changes. You do need a good
skimmer and power heads, your water flow rate needs to be about
4000galls per hour calculated by adding the flow rates of all the pumps
either circulating water from your sump to tank to sump plus all power
heads plus flow through the skimmer if it returns to the tank, the
chiller is optional but you need to maintain your water temp. at 27C to
29C as most natural reef ( some run quite a bit higher than this ) All
that other gear I would sell to finance a proper system including the
U/V they do more harm than good.
regards,
unclenorm.
P.S. the system I have described I have been running for many years
with no problems what so ever.


Ajay Malkani wrote:
I have a 200 G fish with live rock fr about 10 months now and want to
shift
completely to a reef setup. All the required equipment is there.
Lights,
Eheim Wet/Dry, Eheim canister, powerheads, Uv, Skimmer, Chiller etc.

Problem is the nitrates keep increasing till I water chnage. Is there
any
way to keep nitrates stable at the bare minimum? Do i need to add a
denitrifying filter? Add Live rocks? Add Live Sand? What shld i
basically do
to make sure the nitrates dont rise? Ive been reading and I actually
even
read somewhere that a wet/dry will even enhance nitrate production!
So do I
dump it ? and substitute with what?

Looking fr a simple and longterm solution and I know the best advice
will be
here!

Thanks,

Ajay