 Nitrate fix
Well I used the word fix, but, the real fix is staying on top of your water quality. However, while we are all trying to figure it out when we have a nitrate problem or just wish to get it lower, I re-tried "algone", a product that the lfs around me are all swearing about. Of course my first time around I didn't have success and gave up on it. When talking to a girl at one of my trusted lfs she told me it absolutely works, but, you must follow the directions to a tee. I had not done that the first time. I just threw a pack in and kind forgot about it then remembered and took it out, threw in another and forgot about it and when I finally took that one out the nitrates really hadn't gone down. They didn't go up but hadn't come down. This time I followed the instructions religiously and in 14 days the nitrates went from 40 ppm to less than 5! For all you who are looking for some way to get a grip on stubborn nitrates, this is it! |