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UPDATE: First of all, I wanted to thank you for your help. After seeing my nitrate testing was bad, I realized that both of my tanks had a nitrate problem. I did a series of water changes over a few days and now both tanks are a manageable 10-20 ppm nitrate. I plan to test more often and perform...

No, I appreciate your advice. I just feel stupid that I've been testing this tank for over a year and probably never got an accurate reading for nitrate. I've got another tank that I need to go and check now. I'm going to keep an eye on this now and see where we go.

Well, I feel stupid. I shook the heck out of the bottles and what do you know…I get 20ppm on nitrate. And that is just a day after a water change. I get that this could explain the algae, but would that affect the fish at all?

Thanks for the info. I do fertilize the plants, sorry I forgot to mention. I use Easy Green per the instructions each week. The plants were doing really well until the new plants came. I use the liquid API testing kit and I'm sure I am doing it correctly. I am going to take more frequent...

The plants came from my LFS. They have a separate plant tank, but there are a few small fish in there. The tetras are as old as the tank, a little over a year. I suspect something came in on the plants. I had a lot of plant melting with the new plants but also some on the existing plants...

Thanks for the reply! I'm trying to come up with a quarantine solution as I wasn't very prepared. As far as the water parameters, I have never measured any appreciable amounts of nitrate after cycling which I attribute to the planted tank. All of these problems began shortly after I added a...

Hi everyone. Last week I lost one of my 7 Rummy Nose Tetras shortly after seeing it swimming erratically. Now another one of the tetras is doing the same thing. It looks similar to SBD with its tail down and difficulty swimming up. The affected tetra also looks darker than usual. I am not seeing...