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I do believe that it is the mangroves. I am working on my 2nd batch of the salt now and Bill RBU1 has been using the salt alot longer and he has a problem with the nitrates I started using the mangroves before Bill just 2 plants and then Bill ordered more so we added more to our system that's...
The roots seem to grow real quick and we have never had 0 nitrates except for running the sulfur denitrator I really like the look of the mangroves coming out of the refuguim It's like just having another houseplant and 1 less pump running IMHO is always a good thing
Rich I will send you some pics of how mine are set up. We have only had ours in the tank for a few weeks. Now the set up to our main tank is only temporary. I finally talked my husband to plumbing everything in the basement, we are hoping our new pump is delivered today and we can start plumbing...
In the frag tank it is under 10k t5 daylight bulb 15 plants
in the main tank under a pc fixture 20 plants
I rigged up a peice of egg crate in the refugium for the frag tank I just placed them in a whole of the egg crate so only the roots are in the water. It looks like house plants growng out...
We are running the same skimmer asm g3 it has been on all of our tanks we have almost 20 mangroves in our refugium. We took a clear plastic fish catcher and drilled holes in it for water flow and it hangs on the back of our refugium so the plant is 1/2 way out of the water.
We started out running a sulfur denitrator when we had the 120 and then we decided to go with nothing in the 180 we always had nitrates then we decided to go all natural using mangroves.
We hadn't done a water change in over 10 days and anyone who has been to my house can tell you I don't...
We use the dusk to dawn affect with our lighting our t5 actinics come 1st around 7am then the halides come on at 12pm and go off at 6:30 and the actinics go off around 10 pm and we have are moonlights after that. We are going another way with our lighting if you are interested in ours let me know