Tetra nitrateminus?

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anybody tried using this product?
i'm considering buying and trying this...
but i'll still be doing the same water change...
just want nitrate to be less??
 
To be honest, I've never heard of it. I dont pay much attention to those products. But if its supposed to eliminate nitrates (or at least lower them), I can say its a rip off. Why not just do weekly to bi-weekly water changes? This should keep nitrates at a reasonable level, provided you aren't grossly overstocked. :confused:
 
I agree- could you add plants? I may be wrong but one of the benefits of plants from my understanding is that they absorb some of the nitrates.
 
thanks..

i'm just curious about the product...:)
i already do a weekly 40 % water change..
my tank has only a puiece fo arowana..
i guess i just want to have less nitrate without dpoing more water change...:D :D

i only have little gravel in my tank just to prevent reflection.. i don't wat to add more since it'll make maintenance harder:)
also can't add plants since i only turn on the lights when i feed my fish:)
 
There is nothing that you can add to your tank to decrease anything in there. Conservation of mass, right?

Whatever you add may well convert it to a different form that doesn't show up in the tests, but the nitrigen is still there, plus you've added some other substance to your tank.

If you want to decrease NO3, or anything for that matter, water changes are the only viable long term solution. Anything else is just a stop gap. All those adsorption media or reaction chambers will only server to decrease over the short term. If you're diligent with media changes, you won't have any problems. If you're not, you'll run into big troubles when the media expires. Even if you are dilligent, you're just spending extra money.

IMO, all those products out there to get rid of this and that are for lazy fish keepers who don't expect to keep fish for very long. As RTR pointed out in your denitrifier post, all you're doing is removing the compound that lets you know how much other biological, um, biproducts are in your water.

NO3 is not your enemy, it's the stuff you can't measure that comes along with it.
 
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