CICHLA Tanks water and filtration Nitrates!!!

[joshs801]

Yes tried testing the tap water came out around 10 ppm i have quite the collection of bass in there but did just move them to the 350 so i will keep updates and now only have 4 kelberi 8 inch plus in there so we will see how that tunrs out

You dont think by doing to many water changes that i am killing off the live bacteria by not giving them a chance to sit long enough to settle in ?

 

[joshs801]

What test kit are you using?

The test kit is the API freshwater master test kit

 

[joshs801]

Do you have (deep) gravel in the tank? I keep most of my tanks with just a sprinkling of pool filter sand to make it easy to get waste out of the tank.

I had chiclid sand in there but just changed it three days ago to pea gravel

 

[Houdini89]

3 tanks.....Nice

 

[joshs801]

SO with the help and efforts of everyone i got this under control and fish are back to normal i can sleep again and things are looking good

 

[bezza83]

Hi josh, what do you believe was the main cause and solution to your troubles?

 

[joshs801]

Hi josh, what do you believe was the main cause and solution to your troubles?

Well my tanks are a little over stocked so i definetly needed more water changes other then the 50% i was doing once a week so i bumped it up to 50% sunday 25% tuesday and thursday and also added refugiums with algae scrubbers and plants and also put floating plants in sump and in tanks added a couple live plants to all three tanks and also nitrate remover from my lfs into all of my filtration.