hi guys im wondering has anyone out there tried nitrate removal by means of or know the efficiency of the interpet nitrasafe product? i see quite a lot of posts enquiring about high nitrate levels and some in tap water before it gets to the tank but havnt heared any of you guys mention this product or similar ones is this because its bunk or you just havnt tried it ?????????i would appreciate it if anyone could inform me as to the effectiveness of this please thanks

im in the process of trying to dermine the effectiveness of the fluval's nitrate remover now. ive had it in the middle basket of my fx5 and i am documenting my nitrate level before each water change to see if said nitrate level is actually dropping or staying fairly consistent. i have only been doing this for about 3 weeks so far and have not noticed any significant lowering of my nitrates. however i have done some research on similar ideas and from what i can gather it can take up to 8 weeks for results to be noticed. i will keep you updated on my findings after the 6 and 8th week of this experiment.

so far my data has been as follows : week one nitrates 20-25 ppm week 2 20-25 ppm week 3 about 20-25 ppm

i do a 40% water change once per week. subject tank 150 imp gallons with 2 12 inch+ oscars, 2 jack dempseys 7 and 5 inch, 2 hybrid convicts 3 and 2 inch, 1 chinese algea eater 7 inch, and 1 geophagus 6 inch

nitrates in tap water 0ppm

thanks ....any others out there i mentioned the interpet one as it makes huge claims in the info and it doesnt have to be added to a filter just float the pack in the tank and they claim it can be recharged by means of a salt soloution ???????? thanks for the data necromancer please keep us posted

I have tried but found it of little real use. Again I tried the fluval brand ("lab" something?)this seems as good as you can get, i had 2 large bags 2kg that I hung on the side of the tank next to my input from the filter. I did it this way for 2 reasons. 1 to make recharging the nitrate remover easy, 2, the dirt in the filter makes the life of the remover shorter. it dont look as nice this way but? I didnt do any real test like necromancer but didnt notice a large drop so gave up. I dont think it can cope with the amount of nitrate that oscars produce & may work fine in a small community tank. I look forward to necros findings.

i haven't tried anything like that. i am practicing
hydroponics, thus never used such thing.