So after doing 3 water changes a week in both of my tanks to desperately try and bring down my levels (one is 138 litre, one is 50 litre) and the levels have been this pretty much every time I test -
Ammonia - 0.25
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 40ppm (the main one I was trying to bring down)
I just tested my tap water and guess what -
Ammonia - about 0.15 (I'm using an api liquid master test kit but it was inbetween 0 and 0.25)
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate - 40ppm!
So, what next? Obviously water changes aren't going to bring my levels down because its the tap water causing the levels lol.
Does it make a difference that I took the levels without letting the water settle? Just straight in the tube from the tap and tested?
Its currently all tap water in my tanks. Am thinking of getting some RO water (my PH and GH are high too - I'm in england so apparently this is normal here? I don't know the exact figures) would this be a good idea? And what percentage RO to tap water? I want to do as little as possible due to costs but enough to make my levels much better obviously.
Any advice appreciated. Thanks, laura
Ammonia - 0.25
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 40ppm (the main one I was trying to bring down)
I just tested my tap water and guess what -
Ammonia - about 0.15 (I'm using an api liquid master test kit but it was inbetween 0 and 0.25)
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate - 40ppm!
So, what next? Obviously water changes aren't going to bring my levels down because its the tap water causing the levels lol.
Does it make a difference that I took the levels without letting the water settle? Just straight in the tube from the tap and tested?
Its currently all tap water in my tanks. Am thinking of getting some RO water (my PH and GH are high too - I'm in england so apparently this is normal here? I don't know the exact figures) would this be a good idea? And what percentage RO to tap water? I want to do as little as possible due to costs but enough to make my levels much better obviously.
Any advice appreciated. Thanks, laura