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03/24/2009, 07:37 PM
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sea apple
have a question i am pretty new to the hobby only have a 24 nano for 3months with tiger goby and 2 gold strip clown. i cant seem to get the nitrates down no mater how many water changes i do. i was out at ms the other day and talked with josh he showed me the coolest thing ever a sea apple and said it would help lower them. is this true or false please help
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03/24/2009, 07:40 PM
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josh who?
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03/24/2009, 07:59 PM
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LOL chad' great response to a first time poster
 !He ask because many of us are familiar with MS and are probably shocked they would say something like that. A sea apple would be a bad choice on many levels IMO, they are actually stressed by high levels of nitrates and when stressed or killed they can emit a VERY bad toxin into the water, this toxin typically will kill everything in your tank including fish... they also need a lot of foraging room, they would starve to death in a 24 gallon pretty quickly! As far as getting nitrates down, tell us a little more about your system. what are all the params, how long has it been set up, what type of filtration/skimmer, livestock, rockwork well everything you can think of and we can try to help guide you! And by the way... WELCOME TO REEF CENTRAL!!!! and the slash forums! |
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03/24/2009, 08:11 PM
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not sure i thought his name was josh i have like 20lbs of rock 20lbs of sand and thats about it i bought it used off craigslist came with everything but goby
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03/24/2009, 08:34 PM
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would be an absolute bad idea..like previously said these are very bad animals to place in many tanks and should only be kept in well established tanks by experienced aquariest.
How frequently are you doing water changes, did you clean the tank well before you started it, and are you overfeeding your tank? Did you replace the sand or just transfer the sand from the other tank? I would try to cut the feedings down by half..it is so easy to overfeed things which can parem problems. Do you have any ammonia in your tank? |
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03/24/2009, 09:20 PM
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03/24/2009, 10:09 PM
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josh who?
+100 lol
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03/25/2009, 05:52 PM
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Re: sea apple
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 A sea apple is a beautiful animal that is INCREDIBLY risky to put into a 24 gallon aquarium. It DOES NOT remove nitrate from the system. It is a filter feeder with high demands.
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03/26/2009, 07:37 AM
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As far as the nitrates go, how are u doing water changes? Are you vacuuming the substrate. Care needs to be taken when stirring the substrate because this can cause great nitrate problems. What are some of your other water paramaters?
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03/26/2009, 08:51 PM
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vacume the back chambers when you do water changes as well, food and sutch like to build up back there you can also get cut to fit ammonia pads that will help suck up some nitrates but wont prevent nitrates also how much are you feeding and what are you feeding?
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03/27/2009, 06:24 PM
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hello this is Josh Claspille from Marine Solutions..... Somehow either you talked to someone else or you seem to have SERIOUSLY misunderstood what i said. A sea apple is a beautiful free moveing invertabrate, it is a filter feeder and will in no way help to reduce nitrate. When asked about the sea apple i warn everyone that it is a very delicate animal and if it is injured or picked on in anyway it will release a deadly toxin into your aquarium. The sea apple should be left to the VERY experienced. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused you. As far as your problem with lowering your nitrates, although there are ways to remove nitrate from water the easiest and mote time tested remedy is frequent water changes and cutback on how much you are feeding and that should fix the problem.
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03/27/2009, 06:30 PM
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Just sell him a sanitizer!
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03/27/2009, 06:50 PM
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Haha those work wonders I heard lol
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03/29/2009, 10:15 AM
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Re: sea apple
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03/29/2009, 10:46 AM
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clams filter feed on nitrates but nano's are not usually stable enough nor have enough lighting, there are cheap cleaner clams that filter feed also.
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