Hello, New to 3reef. Nitrate issues.

Tangs like eating plants such as that. If you have a active tang try using calupra. If you have no tang I would not recomend cause it does grow fast. I have a 36 with it in there and have to clean it out once a month. Also have you tryed to kill of any algae latley. some times chems that kill off algae blooms or cure ick will adversly affect your nitrates. I would try to encourge more algae growth. That is what I am doing in my 75gal I had nitrates at 80ppm and it is slowly coming down just with algae growth.

 

I found out that the dip sticks are truly junk. My nitrates are about 15 when dip stick indicated 40-80. I did buy some cheta and have it in tank. My yellow has not touched it. I have a large amount. The growth should off-set consumption. Thanks for the help.

 

My tang & foxface (especially) eat all the calupra first no matter what. I am not sure why that would be recommended over cheato, fish are much more likely to eat the calupra. And just for the refrence for whoever, although my tang will eat cheato a little, I've seen my foxface eat a baseball sized chunk of cheato in 2 days. So I'd go with cheato, monitor how they eat it (if they do, because its not common for them to eat cheato) and if they eat it like crazy like my foxface, come up with a solution.