Nitrate Hogging Plants

Roan Art

Roan Art

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Are any of these plants considered real nitrate hogs:

Bolbitis heudelotti (four very small pieces)
Vallisneria caulescens (at least seven of these with many plantlets)
Ceratophyllum demersum (very small plant)
Cyperus helferi (three)
Monosolenium tenerum (two clumps)
Cryptocoryne blassii (one)
Aponogeton Undulatus (two)
Cryptocoryne ciliata (one)
Blyxa japonica (six)
Myriophyllum tuberculatum (eight?)
Microsorium brassii (one)

Of all of them, would it be the vals? I am dosing 20ppm every waterchange (4 days) and with my tap nitrates of 7, for 27ppm. This puts me at 0 on day three. The plants go through almost 30ppm of nitrates in 3 days. My phosphates are at 2.0 out of the tap and 1-1.5 at the end of day 3.

Is 10ppm of nitrate per day normal for the plants that I have in there? Or are they sucking it up because there is so much phosphate?

Roan
 
The Vals are hogs, but so can hornwort be, and the same for the Apon. Plant mass would deteremine which was eating the most, but it is likely all. Bolbitis is too slow to be hungry. I don't do Blyxa or milfoils.
 
Thanks for posting this question Roan Art. Just this last week I was reading about vegetable filters and wondered which plants in particular would be good nitrate hogs.
 
Roan Art said:
RTR, I believe, has a vegetable filter set up. He's the man to ask about that :)

Roan
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Yep! Thanks. I believe I read RTR's article some time back on another site. I will have to go back and dig that one up. Meanwhile, I found two more plants listed that eat up nitrate... Azolla (Fairy Moss) and Duckweed. Other specific bog plants such as Watercress were mentioned.

[Edit:] Anacharis too, by the way. :)
 
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