Anyone have any suggestions on how to bring them down?
Anyone have any suggestions on how to bring them down?
How high are the Nitrates. It would be unusual to have high nitrite and not a corresponding nitrate level.
If you have high levels of either the easiest way and quickest way to deal with it is to have a 1/3 water change.
Well the nitrates are in the clear at 20ppm but the nitrites are at 10ppm but the ph and alkalinity are good, the only thing i can think of is our water hardness is 150, which i can do a water change but i think i would just be restarting the problem. I'm not sure what to do at this point other than get some distilled water.
Hi Jason
about the water hardness - your water is only medium hard (140-210), which is to say not too bad. if you still want to 'improve' them (or lower the hardness), then reducing calcium and magnesium is neccessary. this can be done by adding water softners (you buy them - they exchange Calcium & Magnesium with Sodium) or adding peat to your filter, or even tree trunks to the tank. DO NOTadd distilled water, as they throw the water buffering ability way off (water keeps the PH at hand, among many other services). i believe that exchanging Ca & MG to Na may help with the Nitrite problem as well, as NaCl counters Nitrite poisening (around the 500g per 1000 liters) - the free Na may bind with some Cl in the water?
if you still wish to change the water - then only to Osmotic water (you get them in aquarium shops)
hope this info is of any help
Tomer
bibamus, moriendum est!
No food and more water circulation through growbeds is the best way.
How did the readings get so high? It will cause damage to your fish, that may not become aparent for a few months, until they start dyeing.
I know Oz, I learned I truly just do not have enough grow bed for the stock density of fish. I forgot to take into account how dirty of a fish Goldies are. As soon as my new pump arrives I will be expanding the beds and adding in a duckweed sump.
hehe expansion time!
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