Water Testing

[winterpeg]

Once your tank is established and you have fish happily living inside how often or is it necessary at all to check the ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates.

 

[Aquascaper]

Depends on how good you are at recognising signs of deteriorating water quality and your own confidence.

I test our ADF tank for ammonia every week with liquid tests as their food is left on the bottom for them to hunt so I need to know if there's any spikes before doing the weekly water change (so I know the filters running fine).

The ACF/Platy tank never gets tested unless there's signs of a problem.

My marine tank (when up and running) will be tested daily with strips and weekly with liquid tests for everything as I did with my last marine tank.

 

[phantomlink]

Every few days or so for me since its a newish tank and every 3-4 days I seem to find a dead fish on the filter ( mostly platy for some reason ) but I also do it weekly before/after water changes