Recent content by elaineandsparky

yes my tap water has 50mg/l nitrate in it! but no ammonia and my tank is defenatly 5 foot long :) i treat the r/o water with stuff that puts all the good stuff back in. oh why cant things be easy :) add water and go!

thanks for all your replies my tank is 5x2x2 foot, not sure what capacity that works out to be. i certain i overstocked my tank before they all died and i was nieve to the size of the fish some of them would eat! about 35 harliquins have been eaten along with 4-5 tetras by small black ghost...

i've just been to lfs and they said the same thing about the levels could have been higher cuz my test kit only goes to 100mg/l so the water change could have brought it down a lot for all i know. my water changes weren't what they should have been untill this problem started as i was told the...

i am using the interpet easy test kit ph is 7.0 ammonia 0.1 nitrite 0 because the water was treated through the ro unit the water i put in had only 10mg/l

i can't get my nitrate levels down and have lost half my fish. i have tried everything i can think of, water changes, treatment, and have just inhereted a r/o unit. i have just changed about 3/4 of my tank water to water treated from the ro and still my nirtates are 100mg/litre!!! when i test...