Is my water test normal ?

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It's quite possible to maintain perfect, or near perfect water conditions in a tank.

I have 5 goldfish in a 75g and one male BN Pleco - 1 goldfish is 8.5 yrs old, and the other two are 6 yrs old, with two 3 month old ryukins.

My tap water actually has a 0.50ppm ammonia, but I also use Prime with my water changes, and I don't age the water either as I have absolutely no room to hold buckets of water for aging, so it's a python to the sink on water changes.

My tank is barebottom with no real plants (since the goldfish eat everything)

I run an Eheim Pro 3e 2078 with ceramic filter rings in one tray, substrat in 2 trays, a media bag of carbon in another (I have driftwood in the tank for the pleco but am not a fan of a heavy tannin colour), then filter floss, then a filter pad.

If I can manage that in a tank with pooping champs, it can be managed most anywhere lol
 
KrazEDesigns said:
It's quite possible to maintain perfect, or near perfect water conditions in a tank.

I have 5 goldfish in a 75g and one male BN Pleco - 1 goldfish is 8.5 yrs old, and the other two are 6 yrs old, with two 3 month old ryukins.

My tap water actually has a 0.50ppm ammonia, but I also use Prime with my water changes, and I don't age the water either as I have absolutely no room to hold buckets of water for aging, so it's a python to the sink on water changes.

My tank is barebottom with no real plants (since the goldfish eat everything)

I run an Eheim Pro 3e 2078 with ceramic filter rings in one tray, substrat in 2 trays, a media bag of carbon in another (I have driftwood in the tank for the pleco but am not a fan of a heavy tannin colour), then filter floss, then a filter pad.

If I can manage that in a tank with pooping champs, it can be managed most anywhere lol
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So what are the nitrate readings?
 
metricliman said:
So what are the nitrate readings?
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I turned the card upside-down for easier comparison; I'm 5 days since last WC

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I use Prime, but very sparingly in my tank.

Don't get me wrong, I've had 0.25ppm Ammonia readings, and almost 5.0ppm nitrates on tests, but my point is that it IS possible to maintain near perfect conditions with proper maintenance and filtration.
 
No, I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I do a 50-60 % change a week and usually have between 5-10 nitrates max. Just throwing out a possibility, as I have definitely seen Prime affect nitrate tests before.
 
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This is what I use for my water when I do water changes and I usually Change 100 gallons so I put 5ml in to treat it which is what it says on the bottle


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That's probably true - I think those might be the cases where they are dosing based on their total tank volume rather than the WC volume.

For example, 5ml of Prime for every 50g of water, so if you have a 100g aquarium, and you do a 50% WC, then 5ml is what you would add. But, many people may do less or more, and that needs to be taken into account. In my case, I have a 75g, so if I do a 50% WC, then I'm only adding back 3.5ml of Prime for a (roughly) 37.5g WC.

Prime should be 1ml per 10 gallons; I disagree with their own website that tells people to dose based on total tank volume (I think that's just a selling scheme lol)
 
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