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How do you chemically remove nitrate?

Thank you for the information! Since I filled the majority of the tank with RO water and cleaned out the sponges, I’m sure now the tank will be able to adjust and fix itself to get that balance. Do you leave your nitrates at 0?

I got RO water from my fish store down the road when I did a 80% water change. My tap is about .25-.5 ammonia and 5 nitrate as is.

Alright I used RO water and kept my sponge and quartz rings so I would assume minerals would be left in those along with if I added flourish liquid fertilizer. Would that do the job?

I found another variation, any thoughts? I’m assuming there is a brown/wild variation of neos and are lower grades

Currently adding water to the tank today after a 70-80% water change. The sponges in the filter have been used since cycling so the bacteria has built up. Because of that water change, you would suggest on removing those sponges and replacing them with ones that are completely new? Or keep them...

Yeah it’s BS, already I have a disadvantage! I’ll have to pick up some water from my local fish store

Hello I was just wondering if anyone knew what type of shrimp this may be? I got one from a breeder and now I have about 5 of these kinds. Thanks.

Please attach the sheet! I would gladly read that

Alright thank you for that insight. I figured out that by tap, the ammonia is about .5 and the nitrate is 5.0. I have prime but of course that won’t clear up everything. Currently doing a 50% water change. About how long of 25% daily water changes would you suggest? Week, 2 weeks? Living in...

How do you reach that level then?

Would you recommend just cleaning out substrate and water change of 25-50% to see if it decreases?

Yes, that is also an opinion I hear about having high nitrates in planted tanks, so I don’t know what to listen to haha.

So my ammonia and nitrite remains the same 0. The nitrate has been in the 40 ppm range and my fish in the tank haven’t died, the shrimp actually have grown more. I believe the spikes of the nitrate are when I use the fertilizer, which is flourish. I put in it there maybe every 3 weeks, so I...

Hello. I have had this tank running around 3 years now and I have been able to grow and keep the beneficial bacteria's in my sponge and quartz rings. Today I checked my water after a couple months and read 0 ppm ammonia, ph 7.6, nitrite 0, nitrate 40 ppm. I have read a few reviews and comments...

Hello. I have a few cories, julii and pepper, and I was wondering if they can breed with different types? Julii+pepper. I have a female julii and the rest I believe are males between the pepper and the other julis. Any information on if it is possible?

Would you recommend using products which reduce nitrate such as matrix/denitrate? And what percentage of water changes, mainly for cleaning the substrate?

I have had these plants in there for over a year or so, this tank has been running well over 2 years. Good thing I am not interested in keeping cichlids anytime soon. Since there is only fish in the tank, I haven't been feeding it all too much, occasionally half algae wafers which last it 2-4...

bruh that is hilarious

Hello. Yesterday around noon I completely cleaned out my tank (about 85-90% water change) which hadn't been deep cleaned in about 2 months, only one fish in it, an oto. I do 25% water changes/adding water to the tank about every other week when the water level goes down. My water paraments prior...

i just have a lot of plants. ill just get some more ottos then

ok then since fish wont help out the problem, just leave the snails alone?

Hello. Just recently I have gotten an explosion of baby snails in my tank. I was planning on adding some bottom feeders in the tank like a cory or siamese. Any suggestions? Theres a betta and oto in it currently, planted tank.

Hello. I recently have looked over my betta and have noticed a brown spot on his fin which looks like algae or fungi. Under his face is also pretty brown, looks like lack of scales growing because of it. Any idea what may be the problem?

Yeah I'm using the same filtration and everything. So far the water parameters are looking good. I probably will slowly add a fish in the tank so the tank doesn't spike. Treat them with what? Ich medication? I have been analyzing them for the past 4-5 days and haven't seen any white spots. The...

I would completely change the diet. Have them fast once or twice a week and feed once a day with her. Fluval tropical bug bites are perfect for community fish. Bloodworms are known to being treats along with being hard to digest, not a very good food to give primarily.

Do you feed them flakes mainly?

Thank you again @SeaAngel for helping me out. Gutted the tank and setting the heater on 85-90 F to kill off the ich IF it is still in the tank. New water in and primed the hell out of the tank. Would you recommend to keeping the fish out a day or two? They have been in cups for about 2-3 days so...

so the bugs are springtails and are harmless. As for the catfish, I assume it came from the guppy which passed or from the fish place I got him from. Guppy was the only one from petco which usually carry diseases most of the time. My fish tank has been fine since 2 days and the plant which had...

There was a guppy in the tank and that one died so I think that was the host for the parasite. The catfish is the only one showing ich and I removed plants that look dead but I'm not willing to throw away all of them. The substrate I have to keep cause of all the nutrients it already has in it...

Hello. Came home from work today and noticed bugs on the side of the glass that are jumping around on top of the water as well. I have had these bugs jumping around before but they eventually went away, can't remember if they are harmless or not. I have noticed white "spores" or "spider web...