JRR1285
New Member
First let me start off by saying that this place has helped me enormously since I found it. Simply one of the best places for information on saltwater tanks I have found. I'm a fairly experienced fish keeper both with fresh and salt water, this Nano section really intrigued me and thats why I'm now posting after a few months of lurking.
Now to my problem. I started my 10G nano close to two months ago, Using live rock from my 55G salt tank I got the cycle going. I had been doing regular water monitoring for a while but that ceased with the recent holidays. Today I check all params and everythig is ideal:
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
pH: 8.2-8.3
Salinity: 1.022
Temp: 78.1
Getting excited that I'm about to be able to go out and get live stock I do the Nitrate test... approx 100 ppm or higher.
Any ideas on how to get this under control? Also once back in control how to keep it there. Im thinking I should also mention I have a HOB filter I used to get it going. Probably should remove this right?
Now to my problem. I started my 10G nano close to two months ago, Using live rock from my 55G salt tank I got the cycle going. I had been doing regular water monitoring for a while but that ceased with the recent holidays. Today I check all params and everythig is ideal:
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
pH: 8.2-8.3
Salinity: 1.022
Temp: 78.1
Getting excited that I'm about to be able to go out and get live stock I do the Nitrate test... approx 100 ppm or higher.
Any ideas on how to get this under control? Also once back in control how to keep it there. Im thinking I should also mention I have a HOB filter I used to get it going. Probably should remove this right?