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10-23-2012, 01:35 AM
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Nanoreefnewbie, what nitrate test are you using. Also, can you post the rest of your parameters and what tests you're using for them? Honestly, I don't trust your test at this point.
If you did a 50% change, that would have brought your nitrates down to 20ppm. A 25% change the next day would have brought them down to 15ppm. 25% the next day would bring them down to 11.25ppm, then 8.43ppm, then 6.32ppm . . . on day six 4.74ppm. Of course, nitrate would be building at the same time, so it would probably take a week or more to get the nitrates below 5ppm. Only the first water change would have a huge effect on the levels, and the effect becomes less and less with each water change. Have you recorded your daily nitrate levels? If so, can you share them? 
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10-23-2012, 01:47 AM
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I just read through the whole thread and have a couple questions.
1. Are you using RO/DI water? 2. On page one you said you were using 1lb of live rock and 39 of dead rock. Did you actually do this? If you did then there's no way that your tank would be biologically stable enough yet for any inhabitants. You should've had at the very least half of the rock live rock, especially if its a nano. This can explain why your nitrates were high and stayed high.
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10-23-2012, 02:08 AM
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Andyes starters tank like this did research has and was told I can do this tank was covered with hair algea and was told safe too add clean up crew
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10-23-2012, 02:03 AM
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10-23-2012, 02:11 AM
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Test your fresh ro/di water with your test kit. The results should read zero. If you are getting any sort of reading then I would say the test kit is faulty. 2lbs of live rock over this amount of time and the number of water changes you have done shouldn't still be adding to your nitrate problem. What was your dry rock source?
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10-23-2012, 03:38 AM
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10-23-2012, 03:48 AM
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10-23-2012, 04:01 AM
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Sorry for the confusion. GE makes about 100 different kinds of silicone. The ones you get from Home Depot are the silicone I and II, don't use this. Get the SCS1200 which you get from a contractors store. Or get the stuff from the LFS.
Again sorry for the confusion.
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10-23-2012, 04:14 AM
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Well here are perimeters again
My unmixed ro water all read zero even nitrates so not faulty or out dated kit... For saltwater in tank(not in mixing bucket) Ph 7.8 Ammonia 0.25 ppm (shocked cause been zero for weeks now) Nitrite 0ppm Nitrate  40-80ppm Phosphate 0.5ppm Temp 78-79 degrees Sality1.026-.027
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10-23-2012, 04:14 AM
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