Nitrate help

[toobs]

I have a 1 year old 50 gal. with a couple eels a lion and a file fish. I've got live rock and snails. I use an emperor 280, and protien skimmer. I also have a strong power head attached to an under gravel filter that covers only half the tank. It seems like a lot of detritus accumulates on the undergravel filter side, and my nitrates having been getting higher and higher when I test, Do you think I should remove the under gravel filter? Will this help my nitrate problem?

 

[dirtybilge]

Look at all the sharks tanks none of them have U.G.F.s no good for salt water tank. Use a deep live sand bed.

 

[yardrat]

i agree.. remove the ugf.. it should bring them down

 

[peasly1]

I had ugf's in all my tanks and have switched to a dsb because of high nitrate and every tank is lower than what it was and still dropping, high nitrate is not a huge problem in fowlr tank although lowest reading are best