"kryppy" kryppy@. wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 21:36:13 GMT, "David Burton"
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I have a 120g tank with a large grouper, a few varieties of coral,
xenias, a yellow gorgonian.and two killer mushrooms that eat anything.
3 emerald crabs, 5 blue legged hermits about 4 varieties of snails
totaling about 40. 3 common steamer clams, 3 flame scallops and pink
gulf shrimp that come and go. Usually 4 in there.
Let me not forget the largish horseshoe crab in a section of the fuge
which has all sorts of things going on. 95% of the tank consists of
things from the Florida waters.

Anyway, the moral of my story is the nitrates have been 200+ for years
with no ill effects on anything in there. Great growth on everything.
0 nitride, 0 ammonia 8.2 PH 1.025 -6 SG 1400 MG. That is all I test
for.

I recently (over the last six months) added a series of 5 gallon
buckets with 2 - 3 foot mangroves, 15 smaller ones, grape calarpa and
the famous chetomorphia. I threw a few halimadias in the tank.


They have dropped to 60 - 80 now. I kinda hope they continue down, but
I don't think so. They seemed to stabilize there.. Just this morning I
noticed a small weird looking coral on the halimada!! It now has its
polyps out. Very cool.

Your plants are consuming those nitrate. You have an good natural eco-system
here.

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