Nirtates.

water tested at 10-15ppm yesterday. I do water changes every two weeks of 10% maybe more. I took out this month 7 gallons, and 6 gallons. the tank is 65 gallons and sump is twenty gallons of coarse sump is not full plus rock displacement. i have alot of rock so i am assuming i have 65 gallons. That is what i am doing my dosing by and waterchanges. I also have a 200micron sock on drain that gets cleaned regularly and a spnonge that i rinse out in tank water every chnge. so what gives. In sump i have some rubble rock, chaeto, and 2010 cone nw-110 skimmer pulling out some nasty and is very consistent no matter how nasty the neck gets.

 

s.g 1.025
kh 9-10
amonia 0
nitrite 0
ph 8.3

 

How old is your tank?

Your nitrates values are not bad currently. You can try other methods like Microbacter7, carbon dosing, bio-pellets.

If the tank is under 1 year and your not attempting to keep some of the more sensitive sps I really would not worry about those values. Just let the tank mature, use only RO/DI and do not over feed.

 

what do you have in your tank right now?

 

15 is pretty low really, but nitrate test kits are junk. If you go get a nitrate test kit from another brand and test, you will likely get a completely different reading. the best way to test nitrate is watch the algae growth. Do you have an algae problem?

 

tank is under 3 months but cycled with rock from a previous tank. i have 4 chromis(ymcm) crew. 1 alardi clown fish with rbta (weezy and baby). 1 mystery wrass(tupac) 1 royal gramma(slim shady) 1 diamond goby (murph derrty). gsp, 2 single shrooms, 2 frags of zoos, 1 blasto frag, 1 hammer, 1 rbta, 1 crocea clam, 1 wellso, 1 bubble. algea is not bad corlline starting to come in pump frst, few specs on rock a little on glass. no hair algea, no diatoms anymore,