nitrate

Howdy y'all, I have a 20 gallon (long) that had been housing a group of orange von Rio tetras, a couple shultezei midnight corydoras, and a golden gourami. Suddenly, I noticed that the gourami was having a lot of trouble swimming, having to actively point up to get air and survive. Sadly he...

Hello from Indonesia MFK. Here in Indonesia, the culture of checking water parameters are not really there. The common knowledge is just to do regular water changes and filter cleanings, and your fish will be fine. And growing up, that was exactly what my Dad did. We have over 10 years of fish...

I know I was kind of ignorant and didn't pay much attention to water quality over the past week, but please help. My oscar is laying on his side not moving (still breathing slightly). I know oscars do this when they are scared, and I had added a new decoration just yesterday, but he was fine...

ok, this may not be possible but I’ll give you some info. This is long btw I setup my new 125 g Monday night. Used safe start and let it run overnight. In the morning I saw one of my fish stressed from bullying in my established tank so I made a decision. Fish in cycling it would be for my...

Hi I have setup a new 4ft tank about a week ago with a Tidal 75 and sponge filter. I used a bag of media from my 5ft's canister filter with new sponges and matrix for the hob. On top of this I also used a seeded large intake sponge and some substrate from said 5ft tank. This is how I have done...

Hi, I'm looking into methods to lower nitrate in my 180 gallon freshwater. I don't have problems with nitrate, and do regular water changes, but I want the water to be as good as possible. I don't have a sump (just canister filters), so is there any way to use one of these bio denitrator...

I just checked water parameters on both my 120 gallon tank with 6 Red Hook Silver dollars and 220 gallon with two peacock bass. The ammonia on the 120g is at 1ppm, nitrites are at 0mgl and the nitrates are at 25mgl. The pH has also dropped from 6-6.5 to 4-4.5. The tank has been established...

So it the current tank I keep my spiny eel in (a Mastacembelus frenatus) nitrates are at zero or close to it. That being said I have been planning to upgrade the eel for months now. I have a much larger tank set up, and am currently using it as a holding tank for a few fish, which I used to...

Yet another question lol All my tanks have high nitrates (60ppm-80ppm). Even lightly stocked tanks have high nitrates. Whilst I'm not as strict as I used to be on wc (due to a knee injury), the longest the tanks go for is 2 weeks without one. Is there any way to lower them? I know plants can...

moved to a new city a month and decided to get back into the aquarium game after being out of the hobby for a couple years. Picked up a 120 gallon and planned on getting another black rhom. Got everything set up and found out my tap water had .50 ammonia and 20ppm nitrates. What are my options...

I've had my puffers for about a week now. I just moved them into their own 40 gallon tank three days ago. I went to my local petco yesterday and get the saltwater api kits for nitrate and ammonia levels. I couldn't get the others because they were out. Anyways I've checked my levels for the two...

I was given around a dozen platies roughly 3 weeks ago to help cycle my 55 gallon tank, throughout those weeks I tested my water every other day or so and I cleaned the gravel and did small water changes to keep my nitrites low enough to not kill my fish, today my nitrites dropped pretty damn...

Help i have high nitrate in my tank! Nitrate: 35-40 ppm Nitrite: .25 ppm Ammonia: .25 ppm how do I control it? I do pretty frequent water changes 1-2 times a week

Nitrate, nitrite, & ph. What should they be? Right now. Nitrate 20 ppm Nitrite 3.0 Ph 6.8

Does anybody here use Vodka in their aquarium? I have used it in the past to help establish new tanks and seen dramatic changes in water clarity and quality. I think it may have also helped get my biological filtration up and off the ground, but I'm not sure. Anybody else have experiences with...