trennamw
Aquarium Advice Addict
For weeks the story has been very high nitrates, now they're dropping more than expected. I'm not sure how to rebalance my water changes.
Before many plants the tank did well at 30% a week. More seemed to stress the fish and nitrates were zero to five at 50%.
Over the last few months I kept adding plants, which didn't alter things much.
Then I was really sick for awhile and missed some changes and nitrates came up. So I've been doing a series of large water changes to catch up, but not as many as I'd have liked.
I expected today to need another really large change, as the nitrates were still pretty high last week. But the nitrates dropped from last week to this week.
I did add 4 bunches of cabomba, but I added Osmocote roots tabs and reduced the photoperiod, so I didn't expect nitrates in the tank to drop.
I guess having changed several things I'm feeling like I don't know what the new balance is!
Sent from my iPhone with three hands tied behind my back.
Before many plants the tank did well at 30% a week. More seemed to stress the fish and nitrates were zero to five at 50%.
Over the last few months I kept adding plants, which didn't alter things much.
Then I was really sick for awhile and missed some changes and nitrates came up. So I've been doing a series of large water changes to catch up, but not as many as I'd have liked.
I expected today to need another really large change, as the nitrates were still pretty high last week. But the nitrates dropped from last week to this week.
I did add 4 bunches of cabomba, but I added Osmocote roots tabs and reduced the photoperiod, so I didn't expect nitrates in the tank to drop.
I guess having changed several things I'm feeling like I don't know what the new balance is!
Sent from my iPhone with three hands tied behind my back.