How Are These Aquarium Levels?

[ScubaMolley]

PH                                    7.2-7.6
Ammonia                          O PPM
Nitrites                             .25 PPM
Nitrates                            30-40 PPM
 
 
 
 
I have two Tiger Oscars and 2 Large Plecos. The test was done with API Freshwater Kit. As of right now I have them in a 55 gallon (I know I know.. My tank is to small.. Oscars are about 5 inches long and my Plecos 3-4 inches long). I plan to upgrade to a 120 gallon in the near future.

 

[McCool]

I would do atleast a 50% change. And keep doing small changes every day until those nitrites are gone completely. Those fish are just huge mess makers, so you may want to check the stats frequently and do extra water changes until you get them in the bigger tank.

 

[ScubaMolley]

I'll do a 50% water change in the morning considering I clean my tank EVERY morning. I did not do a clean out yesterday morning so that may be why my Nitrates are high.

 

[sawickib]

Have you looked into installing pothos in your filter if you have a HOB filter with direct sunlight then you could use those to lower nitrates. But your nitrites are a problem, id do as big of a water change as you possibly can to remove as much as possible.

 

[McCool]

I'll do a 50% water change in the morning considering I clean my tank EVERY morning. I did not do a clean out yesterday morning so that may be why my Nitrates are high.

Wow, that's a chore! How long has the tank been set up?

 

[ScubaMolley]

PH 7.4
Nitrates 0
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
 
Everything is completely gone. i needed to change my filters horribly. I had to raise the temp up in my tank (Ich) and didn't realize algae had built up on the filters so bad. It was actually so bad that the water was hitting the overflow in the filter. I fixed that and the aquarium fixed itself.

 

[sawickib]

By change the filters do mean you got rid of the cycled media?

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Glad you did not do a huge water change since there was likely no reason to do so.  .25 ppm of nitrite is miniscule and can be handled with a few pinches of table salt.  Moreover, if the nitrite reading is droping down to .25 ppm rather than rising up, the odds are good nothing needed to be done as the nitrite bacs would quicly have managed to catch up. Nitrate at 30-40 ppm is not "so high" and not usually an issue at that level in most tanks.
 
The other issues you mentioned you fixed were much more important and much more of the threat to your fish.
 
saw if the cycled media was removed, the last post would have been reporting big ammonia and nitrite spikes and the fish would have been in serious trouble.

 

[sawickib]

Alright 

 just making sure