Hey all,
I'm hoping somebody can give me a hand with my dilemma. At my job, we have a freshwater tank that's been there for a very, very long time. Apparently it hasn't been very well taken care of, and is fed by many different people who tend to overfeed. Myself and another guy that works here are intending to take better care of it, but we don't want nor have the time to break the whole thing down, and move the fish about, and spend all sorts of (our own) money getting this tank back into health.
We've been testing the water with strips, and so far, the water has come back as very hard, with very high nitrate, almost immeasurable. Nitrite levels are ok, as is the alkalinity and pH. I just swapped out perhaps 25% of the water in the tank and I removed a very scuzzy looking fake coral rock.
We've been changing the charcoal filters religiously at 2 weeks for the past month. The fish in are what appears to be 2 neons, a barb, some sort of sickly looking guppy, a tetra and some sort of algae feeder that is only ever seen swimming under a novelty sunken ship. There are three plants, and perhaps 1 to 2" of coarse gravel in the bottom of the tank.
Any suggestions for how I can remove more Nitrate?
I'm hoping somebody can give me a hand with my dilemma. At my job, we have a freshwater tank that's been there for a very, very long time. Apparently it hasn't been very well taken care of, and is fed by many different people who tend to overfeed. Myself and another guy that works here are intending to take better care of it, but we don't want nor have the time to break the whole thing down, and move the fish about, and spend all sorts of (our own) money getting this tank back into health.
We've been testing the water with strips, and so far, the water has come back as very hard, with very high nitrate, almost immeasurable. Nitrite levels are ok, as is the alkalinity and pH. I just swapped out perhaps 25% of the water in the tank and I removed a very scuzzy looking fake coral rock.
We've been changing the charcoal filters religiously at 2 weeks for the past month. The fish in are what appears to be 2 neons, a barb, some sort of sickly looking guppy, a tetra and some sort of algae feeder that is only ever seen swimming under a novelty sunken ship. There are three plants, and perhaps 1 to 2" of coarse gravel in the bottom of the tank.
Any suggestions for how I can remove more Nitrate?