Emi929
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My nitrates are really high in my 10 gal. Livebearers tank, I don't know why?! I've had it running for a year and a half, with 3 guppies, 2 little mollies, 9 ghost shrimps, 1 bristle nose, and a snail. The only change I've made was put a sponge on the filter sucker thingy and its a penguin biowheel. Parameters are: AMMO: 0 NITRATE: 40 NITRITE: 0 pH: 7.4 HARDNESS: 110 TEMP: 74always SUBSTRATE: normal aquarium gravel. No live plants. A 9" piece of mopani drift wood, has bounced around 2-3 tanks over the course of 3 years. FEEDING: between Top Fin tropical flakes, TetraColor, algae wafers, frozen blood worms 1 a week, shelled peas on weekends. I have done a 20% PWC and the nitrates went down to 20, so I did another one and it went down to 10. I wanted to give the fish a break from the stress, so I went about my business for about 4-5 hours. Rechecked the params and nitrate was 30! What is happening?!!! And why is there NO nitrItes and NO ammonia? How can that be?