Spoor3773
Aquarium Advice Activist
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- Mar 28, 2011
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Hi all I ve had problems with my fish not growing and colours looking bland for a while. I ve been pulling my hair out to say the least. I feed them often with good flake food, do weekly 50% water changes and got three filters running simultaneously. After starting numerous threads on here to find out what the problem is to no avail I decided to go back to basics and get the old water test kit out. To my surprise my nitrates were really high, how is this possible with me doing 50% regular water changes. Firstly I thought it was a duff test so I did another, however the results remained. Confused still I decided to check the tap water to see what I'm putting into the the tank and it reads 20ppm which is way too high. What chance have I got of low nitrate levels if the stuff I'm putting in is too high in the first place. Anyone know how you can get round this dilemma?? Cheers.