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Nitrates

Posted By: Alistair <amckerr@hotmail.com>
Date: Friday, 30 July 1999, at 10:20 a.m.

In Response To: Swinging the other way (Steve Burton)

To deal with your nitrates try a product call NitraZorb in your filter. PetSmart keep it. A big pouch will take about 30ppm of Nitrates out every 48 hours and saves you changing water. The pouch uses ion exchange and you can rechange it using salt water. One pouch will last for up to 6 months easily. It will help eliminate nitrates altogether (killing any plants that use it as fertiliser of course). I had an identical problem about 2 months ago and, funnily enough it was my angel fish that broke out with ich, not the clowns. I test the water and the Nitrates were off the scale. I've still no idea what caused it (possibly overfeeding) but until the ich outbreak there were no other symptoms. Strange. The Nitrazorb (along with a couple of water changes) saved the day.
 

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