SKB
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I've been having to labor over my tanks because for some reason I've been having nitrate problems. They get to 40-80 or higher quicker than a week and I don't understand why.... Exactly....
I reduced the amount of feeding from 3 to 1 times daily. My fish act stressed if I don't feed them at least once a day especially my Africans. Spoiled brats... Lol. Anyways I did that like 2 weeks ago.
Then I thought maybe I'm not cleaning my media enough... So I rinsed it a bit in the tank water I took out. That was 2 cleanings ago.
Now I see something about cleaning your filters too. I thought u were almost never supposed to clean your filter out. Is this my problem?
I just lightly scrubbed my filter out when I cleaned my African tank out, hoping this is the answer. But I'm having the same problem with my SA tank. About to rinse their filter out and change water out. That one isn't as bad because of plants, but it still gets up to 40. Sometimes 80.
How often are you supposed to add new filter media to the existing ones to get bb on them? How often do you clean your filters?
I'm 100% positive I clean the tanks enough of left over food and poo... So
Any help?
I reduced the amount of feeding from 3 to 1 times daily. My fish act stressed if I don't feed them at least once a day especially my Africans. Spoiled brats... Lol. Anyways I did that like 2 weeks ago.
Then I thought maybe I'm not cleaning my media enough... So I rinsed it a bit in the tank water I took out. That was 2 cleanings ago.
Now I see something about cleaning your filters too. I thought u were almost never supposed to clean your filter out. Is this my problem?
I just lightly scrubbed my filter out when I cleaned my African tank out, hoping this is the answer. But I'm having the same problem with my SA tank. About to rinse their filter out and change water out. That one isn't as bad because of plants, but it still gets up to 40. Sometimes 80.
How often are you supposed to add new filter media to the existing ones to get bb on them? How often do you clean your filters?
I'm 100% positive I clean the tanks enough of left over food and poo... So
Any help?