High nitrates

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BLUEaquarium06

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This is killing me, I had rally high nitrates my last test and I have no idea why, now I'm trying to get them down and they will not go down, can anyone help? I cleaned the filter yesterday, and did a water change and got it down to 40, I just did another water change and it's still at 40

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What water are you using to make up the new mix?


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I would assume no, because I just bought a new one, it doesn't expire until 2019, and it is reading the new mix at 0

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when high phosphates and nitrates are present I always do back to back 50% water changes than 50% daily water change till its all gone usually takes like 3 days
 
It's a 20 gal, it's been running for about 9 months, I feed about every other day or more, it has 2 ocellaris clowns and an orchid dottyback


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I used argonite sand and I vacuum about half an inch down. I did have a little bit of algae problems about 4 months ago, but I switched to distilled and it's been good ever since

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ah okay, that makes sense then, thanks for the help

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I'd try and blow off your rockwork before a water change and siphoning out any gunk which comes off.

A lot of things can go wrong if you disturb a sandbed which hasn't been touched in a while, so just a light skimming over its surface will do fine.

Detritus build up will wreak havoc on any nano.


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