Good news on the Nitrates showing, this means ammonia is successfully being turned into Nitrites then into Nitrates and the Nitrates will feed algae and other plants. In case you were not aware high Nitrate levels are also toxic to shrimp so if your algae doesn't reduce it enough either wait for the algae to grow and become more abundant to take on the high levels of Nitrate or do a water change to reduce it with fresh brackish water (say 50%) retest and go from there. You only need to worry about the levels when you are going to introduce life (shrimp/snails) to the tank though.
odin wrote: ↑03 Mar 2018 16:52 Good news on the Nitrates showing, this means ammonia is successfully being turned into Nitrites then into Nitrates and the Nitrates will feed algae and other plants. In case you were not aware high Nitrate levels are also toxic to shrimp so if your algae doesn't reduce it enough either wait for the algae to grow and become more abundant to take on the high levels of Nitrate or do a water change to reduce it with fresh brackish water (say 50%) retest and go from there. You only need to worry about the levels when you are going to introduce life (shrimp/snails) to the tank though.Is there a 'happy' level of Nitrates for the Shrimp, so the Algae still grows to feed them ?
if there is but it starts to creep up would Chaeto Macro Algae help ?
Thanks Danny