Recent content by james rand

the nitrate level is 40 ppm. Currently there are 12 fish, but the problem existed before that many were there. There are no skeletons. The tap water has no nitrate. The fish are an arowana, 2 gars, baracuda, 2 tinfoil barbs, 2 cats, a Severum, 2 geophagi, 2 green terrors. They appear ok now...

I'm writing this for my friend who does not have high speed internet connections. He has a 125 gallon tank with some barbs, an arowana, a datnioid, geophagus and a couple of others. Already he had to replace all the fish as they died with a very high nitrate level. Filtration is quite...