ashleynicole said:How large are your water changes? Chances are your nitrate are higher than the chart will read and you probably need to do daily pwc's of at least 50% until you get them down to a readable level.
You might have highly stocked tanks that are producing lots of waist and although your beneficial bacteria are consuming the ammonia and nitrite you wind up with an overabundance of nitrates. This can lead to stress and disease if not handled promptly.
If this continues to be a problem you can consider adding some fast growing nitrate sucking plants like hornwart, elodia, or wisteria. Hope this helps.
Hondatek said:Read up on algae turf scrubbers.they are nitrate eating machines
Hondatek said:There is nothing unnatural about a algae turf scrubber . It is a very good natural filtration method. I do agree though if your nitrates are really out of control something is probably off .
Hondatek said:I didn't think so i just wanted to make sure the op or anyone who happened to read it are aware. No worries
AndrewsPistol said:I forgot to mention I'm a sand vac'ING machine haha, vacuum my sand every other day!
Hondatek said:How deep are the sandbeds? Your just vacuuming the top not disturbing and stirring them up are you?
AndrewsPistol said:Wow! I missed a lot! Thanks for all the input ya'll I'm gonna do a wc and clean the filters than test lime mumma suggested, ill post my results
Convict2161 said:Yeah ya did... Don't "clean" your filters. Swish them around in old tank water. You have AC 110's so just lightly rinse them in a bucket of old tank water. If your running carbon toss it, I've learned through trial and error that it only lasts so long and eventually becomes a nitrAte den. Also what I'm concerned about is why your having this issue in all 3 tanks. There all different fish too right? Also do you still have the peacock in a separate tank and is that also one with high levels?
Enquiring mind wanna know!!
paytertot said:I'm so sorry to hijack but how exactly do you clean your filter media in tank water efficiently?? K do water changes with a python, I have tried just getting a large bowl of tank water, but the water gets so dirty so fast, it doesn't help much. Any ideas on a better way?
Sorry again to the OP