No-Nitrate, Nitrate Removing Compound

Often the hobbyist is not aware of these sources of nitrates or is under the totally false impression that using reverse osmosis or deionized water will remove all nitrates. Unfortunately this is not the case.

Reverse osmosis units remove nitrates on a percentage basis. They may remove 95 % of all nitrates. That still leaves 5 % though. If the nitrate level is high to begin with, then this 5 % can amount to a relatively high number. For example, if your water comes in to your RO unit and contains 60 ppm of total nitrate, after it has gone through the RO unit, it will still contain 3 ppm. Add this on a continuous basis and nitrates will soon start to build up in your system. Often tap water or well water contains much more nitrate than that number. Unbeknownst to you, you could be adding quite a bit of nitrate to your tank.

DI units remove all nitrates but only until the resins are saturated with nitrates and then they let all nitrates go through. Depending on how much resin you use and how much nitrate is in the water you are processing your DI unit could let nitrates th rough in a very short period of time.

Only checking the effluent from the RO and/or the DI unit will tell you how much nitrates are entering your tank. Do so regularly so you know what is really happening. This is especially so when resins are used, as checking will tell you when to regene rate them. This may have to been done frequently if you process a lot of water that is high in nitrates.

In order not to have "green algae" growing in your tank these nitrates and the more complex nitrate compounds need to be removed. This is a must. The best and most efficient manner in which to do so is to use our Thiel Aqua Tech No-Nitrate compound.

We have sized our packaging based on an average load of nitrates and then packaged it in sizes to treat 50, 150, 300, 500 and 1000 and 2000 gallons. It is obvious that you can buy a larger size and divide it up, and use only as much as you need. We recommend th at you use 1.0 pounds by weight, for every 50 gallons of water in your system. When you buy a larger size than you need, just divide the amount you have bought by weight to match the size of your aquarium.

For instance, if you bought a 300 gallon treatment and your tank is only 55 gallons, you can divide the total amount up in 5 equal parts and you will have enough No-Nitrate to treat your tank and also to pre-treat the raw water you use. This is very imp ortant as we shall see.

For effective control of algae you should have placed No-Nitrate in an area of the tank where lots of water can flow "through" the compound, and you should also pre-treat the water you use to add salt to, to prepare Kalkwasser for a reef tank, in short, any water that eventually makes it into the tank should be pre-treated with No-Nitrate as well.