And for the record it was asked a few times.Read Instead of attacking people.
Yeah, let me poke you back.
I did read quite carefully.
Eddie asked and nobody else. You certainly didn't ask. It was not "asked a few times."
Unfortunately right after Eddie asked, some people didn't bother waiting for an answer and started solving a "problem" that nobody knows exists. The next step should have been to wait for an answer. Or offer ways to reduce nitrates with the qualification that the OP
shouldn't do anything until they know there is a problem.
How can you give advice to fix a problem you don't even know exists? But you seem to have a magical internet gut test that knows the nitrate level of another person's tank...ok. Of course, your wild-a** guess could end up being right...some guy from Methuen just won the lottery twice, after all.
I didn't attack anybody. I stated facts - something nobody else bothered to wait for, except for AF and The River - and said it was irresponsible to give advice when you don't know what the problem is. Perhaps you felt attacked because after you read what I wrote, you understood it was irresponsible.
The OP stated he was going to dose vinegar and look for a reactor in response to this irresponsible advice. They are now taking action that may do more harm than good based on that advice. In fact, vinegar dosing will achieve nothing without enough phosphate, another variable none of you know.
If this isn't the definition of irresponsible in this context, I don't know what is.
I doubt you'd like to walk into a doctor's office with a stomach ache and have them start hacking at your appendix with no tests.