sstanle4
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My boyfriend and I are doing research with the biology department at school trying to mate a pair of clownfish. Here lately, we cannot seem to keep our nitrates down. We check levels every Tuesday and Thursday and every time we check, everything is normal except nitrates (which stay anywhere from 30-60). We only have the two clowns, live rock, and live gravel in the 30 gallon tank. We do 8-10 (sometimes 12-14) gallon water changes if nitrates are above 10 or 15. We vacuum the gravel to get all the gunk from it, but nitrates are still super high. What can we do to reduce them? And what is causing this? Help?
Checked today around 12:30
pH: 8.1
ammonia: 0
nitrItes: 0
nitrAtes: 40
Checked again after 10 gallon water change around 3:00
pH: 8.1
ammonia: 0
nitrItes: 0
nitrAtes: 30
Checked today around 12:30
pH: 8.1
ammonia: 0
nitrItes: 0
nitrAtes: 40
Checked again after 10 gallon water change around 3:00
pH: 8.1
ammonia: 0
nitrItes: 0
nitrAtes: 30