fishboy87
Aquarium Advice Freak
So after my moving my tank from my gf house to my apartment.. I decided to to clean the tank.. Bringing the tank to my apartment I nearly drain the tank to about less that 25percent of water . I left all the gravel with some water in there... I replaced the water with all fresh water when I got it to my apartment. So that was a water change in of itself but I didn't do any gravel cleaning... So now today I cleaned the canister and I siphoned most of the gravel to give the tank a good cleaning... Now tonight after work I wanted to check the nitrate levels... I wasn't very pleased ... It's was looking like at least 40ppm... Why ? It's kind of like two majors water changes with a week span..,,, should this have dropped the nitrate levels ... I checked the nitrate level in between the water changes and it pretty much stayed the same... how can that be??