I've never truly achieved this in all my time in the hobby. Mainly because most of my tanks, past and present, have never had sufficient greenery in them to make a difference. And of course add overstocking to the equation and you really are up against it in your goal to have 0ppm nitrate......until now!
My little hex tank has no reading of nitrate whatsoever, it is the brightest yellow of colours on the test, a big fat zero. It's been like this for a while now. There are three rams and six rummynose tetras in there and I feed this tank little and often, sometimes three times per day.
Plants wise there are a couple of clumps of java moss, a small surface spider plant and the whole surface will soon be covered with salvinia the way it's currently spreading. But I believe the biggest nitrate vacuum is my algae. It grows fantastically well and I harvest clumps of it for my GG in my 360g.
Achieving 0ppm nitrate on a small lightly stocked heavily planted tank is one thing, but how many of you, with much larger planted tanks also achieve a genuine constant 0ppm?
My little hex tank has no reading of nitrate whatsoever, it is the brightest yellow of colours on the test, a big fat zero. It's been like this for a while now. There are three rams and six rummynose tetras in there and I feed this tank little and often, sometimes three times per day.
Plants wise there are a couple of clumps of java moss, a small surface spider plant and the whole surface will soon be covered with salvinia the way it's currently spreading. But I believe the biggest nitrate vacuum is my algae. It grows fantastically well and I harvest clumps of it for my GG in my 360g.
Achieving 0ppm nitrate on a small lightly stocked heavily planted tank is one thing, but how many of you, with much larger planted tanks also achieve a genuine constant 0ppm?
