With enough live rock in your set-up, your nitrates should not get very high at all provide all other elements of your set-up are very well maintained. The best and most efficient way to grow enough of these bacteria is to have a good amount of live rock in your aquarium to provide a natural environment for the bacteria to grow. One of the biggest differences in the nitrogen cycle in a marine set-up when compared to a fresh water set-up is that a marine set-up with live rock will grow bacteria that will consume your nitrates and convert it into nitrogen gas. Based on my experiences, the below are among the more common causes to higher levels of nitrates and phosphates:Ī) Insufficient growth of nitrate eating bacteria. In the past, the nitrate level in my tank spiked at 2ppm while the tank was maturing and I was still making adjustments in my routines. I have always preferred to maintain my phosphate levels at an undetectable level by my test kit and my nitrates at the same. Maintaining those levels for nitrates and phosphates in an aquarium can certainly be a challenge at times, but not very difficult to do with a correctly planned and maintained set-up. For a little more detail about the nitrogen cycle and/or cycling a marine tank, please check out the below linksīased on what I have read, the nitrate and phosphate levels found in the ocean can vary a lot, but can be found in levels as low as 0.003ppm in most of the coral reef were we find the corals and fish that are commonly kept in the hobby. This is very similar to any fresh water aquarium. Having ammonia and/or nitrite in your tank can be harmful to almost all forms of marine life. Once your aquarium is cycled, these parameters should undetectable by your test kits. Ammonia and Nitrites:Īmmonia and nitrites are byproducts of the nitrogen cycle at work in your aquarium. By taking this approach, the water chemistry (parameters) are not all that complicated at all.
I would like to share with you how I have learned the basics of marine aquarium water parameters. While you can take this topic to a level of highly in-depth analysis and complexity, in practically every situation you will run into you can have very great success by applying a good understanding of the basics. In my experience, this is just not the truth. When many people are considering setting up there first marine aquarium, they can develop a perception that water chemistry (parameters) in a salt water environment is a complex topic.
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