tropicfishman
Aquarium Advice Addict
hey everyone, i'm really mad now, its been almost 3 months I would say and everytime I test my Nitrates and Phosphates they are absolutely through the roof. The odd thing is the Phosphates in my other 10 gallon are extremely low, almost none. but the nitrates are high in both. ammonia is fine, nitrites is fine so is ph and GK and KH. just my nitrates won't go down. Now with my phosphates i'm using this coarse green phosphate pad stuff in my filters. Each tank has the same size piece of pad and yet one tank has already almost zero'd out while the other one has only been reduced 50%. I don't know whats going on. Anyways I was going to test my tap water, but I wanted to see what I can test for, can I test for everything or just certain things? Oh and by the way i've been doing PWC's of up to 50% every 3-4 days the last couple months to get the nitrates down and its not working. I have nothing dead or decaying in my tank either. any suggestions? lol