will carbon remove good chemicals?
- Thread starter dbacksrat
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I don't think carbon will pull those out. I'd go fo r carbon over a biowheel (yet another nitrate trap).
Why do you think you're going to need to add iodine and trace elements to a 29 gallon tank - these things should be maintained by your weekly water change. It's hard to advise adding anything for the hell of it, especially as I don't normally see iodine test kits for sale.
Why do you think you're going to need to add iodine and trace elements to a 29 gallon tank - these things should be maintained by your weekly water change. It's hard to advise adding anything for the hell of it, especially as I don't normally see iodine test kits for sale.
Inverts are much fussier than fish so people aim for zero and generally get jumpy at anything above 20.
Denitrafication goes on dep inside your live rock, inside a dsb if you have one, or in a denitrator. Generally the aerobic areas of a tank outvolume the anaerobic areas so there is more area/oppotunity to produce nitrates than to reduce them. This is wet drys and biowheels for example are termed nitrate traps. Nitrate is the end product , as it is in live rock, however these things produce really quickly in amounts no denitrator can hope to deal with (except a whacking great, hard to run sulphur bead device or similar). Also as they're entirely aerobic, and nitrate CANNOT be reduced in an oxic enviroment (bacteria are present but the energy physics of the chemistry won't work) they typically build up nitrates quick
Denitrafication goes on dep inside your live rock, inside a dsb if you have one, or in a denitrator. Generally the aerobic areas of a tank outvolume the anaerobic areas so there is more area/oppotunity to produce nitrates than to reduce them. This is wet drys and biowheels for example are termed nitrate traps. Nitrate is the end product , as it is in live rock, however these things produce really quickly in amounts no denitrator can hope to deal with (except a whacking great, hard to run sulphur bead device or similar). Also as they're entirely aerobic, and nitrate CANNOT be reduced in an oxic enviroment (bacteria are present but the energy physics of the chemistry won't work) they typically build up nitrates quick