Nitrates reading 20-25

[joe's reefer]

please help me out here i got some decently high trates and need help finding a way to lower them quickly and biologically safely! any tip is helpful i already do water changes weekly. its a 30 gal reef

 

[beaslbob]

you got any macros or marine plants in the system (display or refugium)? If not then put some in.

 

[buzz]

How much water do you change weekly? You may want to do another larger change.
What kind of lighting do you have?
How much/often do you feed the tank?

 

[joe's reefer]

i have some caulerpa on the rocks,very little. i have 65x2 jbj pcs, 5 gallons weekly and i feed just like a pinch of pellet and maybe some brine

 

[jlem]

Are you having problems with any of your livestock or algae. If you are not then I would just monitor and not worry until they get up into the 30's. Very low nitrates are nice but even in the 20's nitrates really do little more than cause algae blooms sometimes. Pellet foods I have read are terrible for water quality and are don't have the greatest nutrition. I really like the frozen foods like formula one and marine cuisine that are fortified with a whole bunch of stuff mixed together.

 

[joe's reefer]

ok ill change the diet immediatly and i have some algea very little though.but is there anyway to drop it still