cant get to 0 nitrates on an 8ft tank

[FireWater]

Every post has just rehashed the same thing over and over. We all know there's more than one way to do it.

Aces point of the engineer gobies stirring up the sand bed didn't get answered either. There's so many different questions that only Shane can answer on his own tank. Like I said 40 pages back, I would take it slow and change one thing at a time. I understand there is a bunch of life in the fuge- it's there because it has stuff to eat. When that gets out of balance the critters can't eat all of it.

I've ran tanks with no extra equipment and have ran tanks that had more crap on them than a fish store needs. There is an answer to your question somewhere Shane. I would start small with things you can change now.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

lol I posted for sale to clear some LR rubble and small LR from the sump, if anyones interested lmk, to clear room for others methods of filtration
I have mostly medium size rubble and some smaller LRs for sale.not touching the refug.
The hybrid will be the 1st step in many to take the 8ft tank to another level.
Im still down to 2 pumps for the entire system. mag18 for return and soon hybrid for closed loop, I should have plenty of flow to feed any skimmer or reactor.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

My bad I couldnt find Aces post. I will be pulling the 2 smaller engineers out, but I have 2 monster engineers and they just stay in the caves. not digging much at all.
Ill keep the big engineers in there.

[hobogato]

...but I have 2 monster engineers and they just stay in the caves. not digging much at all.
Ill keep the big engineers in there.

to have the dsb function correctly, it should not be disturbed. any repeated digging will cause problems.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

the 2 small engineers and turbos, both spiked the nitrates, everything was close to 0
all the sps, lps, and softies are growing and doing great, during this nitrate spike