jmarks
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I know I am probably over stocked at the moment or will be soon enough...36gallon tank with 5 very small cory cats, 6 tetras, and 6 young electric blue acaras
I have a fluval c4 filter currently with the foam/poly pad as mechanical, zeo-carb for chemical, and c nodes for bio.
However, my tank ALWAYS reads 0.25 or ammonia using apI master kit. I never have nitrites all while I rapidly produce nitrates.
I am looking to see what I can do to gain better control of the nitrates.
I have already order seachem matrix, purigen, & matrix carbon. I plan to shove the 100ml bags of carbon and purigen into the C4s chemical basket and also add a bag of matrix here. Eventually the cnodes in the trickling chamber will also get replaced with more matrix but not yet obviously.
I also order a filter max 3 to attach to intake tube for better prefiltration. Plus I plan to add a 50 micron polishing pad behind the existing foam/poly pad.
Thoughts, comcerns, questions, or ideas??
I have a fluval c4 filter currently with the foam/poly pad as mechanical, zeo-carb for chemical, and c nodes for bio.
However, my tank ALWAYS reads 0.25 or ammonia using apI master kit. I never have nitrites all while I rapidly produce nitrates.
I am looking to see what I can do to gain better control of the nitrates.
I have already order seachem matrix, purigen, & matrix carbon. I plan to shove the 100ml bags of carbon and purigen into the C4s chemical basket and also add a bag of matrix here. Eventually the cnodes in the trickling chamber will also get replaced with more matrix but not yet obviously.
I also order a filter max 3 to attach to intake tube for better prefiltration. Plus I plan to add a 50 micron polishing pad behind the existing foam/poly pad.
Thoughts, comcerns, questions, or ideas??