Chris_150G
Reefing newb
I had my nitrates at a steady 5-10 ppm. Yesterday I tested and it was 20+. I looked in my tank and found a big dead rotting turbo snail. When I pulled it out it smelled up my kitchen in 5 seconds. After two 10% water changes I'm still at 20ppm. So that is probably the cause of the escalated nitrates? A fat dead snail? Maybe cause nobody could eat it since it was locked up in its shell?