How do "You" control nitrates?

[rodger]

I know what you mean Rodger, good old fashioned experience.....but there will always be those people that say how do you know that your fish are healthy if you don't know what your water is reading.

Ha Ha. My fish are alert, active, hungry, colorful... I have an ammonia test kit, nothing else. I use it if I see a stressed fish, just in case. Usually if I see stress I just change more water and raise the temp. I use cold water out of the tap and prime after it is filled. No ageing, no nothing. I do add my new water slowly, though. It gives me time to smoke cigarettes and watch them nose at the cold hose. I have 5 dats, 5 widebar SD, flagtail, endli bichir, 7 clown loaches all in a 240. I have a lei aro growing out in the swordtail tank to add in a few weeks. Nitrates? Bah!

 

[Egon]

24/7 drip, water outta the tap already registers 10-15ppm nitrates in my area, tank tests steady 10-15ppm nitrates with heavy feeding

+1
There's no replacement for displacement. Or, the solution to pollution is dilution. I can't remember ........

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[badassissimo]

Algae gets me all the time....

Don't you have chlorine in your tap water? I thought that was really bad for any moment of time. Maybe that brief time before the prime is added turns your tank into a heal tank shedding off parasites. Might give it a shot on some feeders before long.

 

[F1 VET]

Algae gets me all the time....

Don't you have chlorine in your tap water? I thought that was really bad for any moment of time. Maybe that brief time before the prime is added turns your tank into a heal tank shedding off parasites. Might give it a shot on some feeders before long.

Plants will consume the nutrients that help algae thrive, atleast most the time. Never had a spec of algae with pothos.

Personally I dose 1/3 of my tank w/ prime prior to filling it up, then halfway thru the fill I dose the rest!

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Go S.Vettel #1 RB8 3X WDC!!!!!!!!!

women?! pleeze. you're like one of my grandsons. I can't even visualize you thattaway, it's just wrong.
I forgot all about NLS.

you might wanna cut back on your jet fuel intake.

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[cali~budfish]

I do add my new water slowly, though. It gives me time to smoke cigarettes and watch them nose at the cold hose.

Simply epic quote. Love it!


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[badassissimo]

Plants will consume the nutrients that help algae thrive, atleast most the time. Never had a spec of algae with pothos.

Personally I dose 1/3 of my tank w/ prime prior to filling it up, then halfway thru the fill I dose the rest!

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I went ahead and looked at what prime is. I guess that's the reason why his fish don't have diseases. It takes out chlorine and shields them against disease as well as detoxifys the nitrates and nitrites. Does it evaporate them? Not sure how you would detoxify nitrates or nitrites except that the bacteria between the two would die because the product states that it protects against it. I had thought it took out chlorine and that's it.

 

[ecoli73]

plants and water changes

 

[Pfisherman]

I think that prime detoxifies ammonia and such by adding making it to another chemical.

Example: H2o, one hydrogen and to oxygen molecules equals water, we all like that.
H2O2, add one more hydrogen molecule and you have hydrogen peroxide.
All the water is still there, but in a different form, I assume this is how prime works, bond another molecule to detoxify the ammonia, its still there just in a different form

 

[Nabbig2]

Algae gets me all the time....

Don't you have chlorine in your tap water? I thought that was really bad for any moment of time. Maybe that brief time before the prime is added turns your tank into a heal tank shedding off parasites. Might give it a shot on some feeders before long.

Algae is probably excess nutrients and ***t in your fish tank, especially if you have gravel. That and sunlight. I set up a 10g in the back of the room, bare bottom, not much light...not a single cell of algae. (Which I kind of want for the fish to graze on...for once)

 

[Z Trip]

I currently do a 33% water change every 2nd day. That works out to a 99% water change per week. This from a 33% a week, I am already seeing growth in my loaches and cichlids.