I found out last week I've been testing nitrates wrong for years. Pretty much since I got my tank. I ignored the length of time I needed to shake the vial of water and solution. I thought it was weird my nitrates were always 0, turns out they are really about 160ppm. Because everything always tested so low I never did a huge amount of maintenance and put it all down as just a stable tank with low livestock and lots of live rock. I've been doing 10% water changes every day/every other day while working to get those levels down. I plan on putting a Protein Skimmer in this week.
Curious what other things I should do to start getting those nitrate levels down and help keep them down. It's a 30 gallon JBJ rimless tank.
Only dosing I've been doing is:
-Kalkwasser in the top off tank
-Seachem AquaVitro fuel 1/2 times per week
-Seachem Reef Fusion 1&2 Once a week or every other week
Salt right now is about 1.021 and temp is stable at 77.
Curious what other things I should do to start getting those nitrate levels down and help keep them down. It's a 30 gallon JBJ rimless tank.
Only dosing I've been doing is:
-Kalkwasser in the top off tank
-Seachem AquaVitro fuel 1/2 times per week
-Seachem Reef Fusion 1&2 Once a week or every other week
Salt right now is about 1.021 and temp is stable at 77.