Marine Land Diamond Blend??

[Knowdafish]

nitrAtes can onlye brought down via:

1: Water Change (Best of the best, The Bently of nitrate removers)
2: Planets (more plants then fish, actuly a lot more plants then fish)
3: Ozone (can be harmful if you don't know what your doing)
4: Nitrate coils (this can also kill all your fish if you mess up)
5: Other ultra low O2 filteres

Love the typo! Which "planet" removes nitrates?

 

[PatrickTheArowana]

Sorry I haven't kept up, forgot about this one! How are they still doing?

It sounds like something went wrong and your tank is going through another cycle. Go ahead with enough water changes (the fish will be fine) to keep these levels minimal. The only thing that can hurt fish in large H2O changes is temp difference, pH difference, untreated tap water, and a few other things that most people don't encounter. As long as the main ones are taken care of, change to your hearts content... the fish will love you for it.

Ok,I think I got it.I did a 40% water change the other day and made sure I conditioned the and repaired the water before I put it into the tank and my nitrates went down considerably.What I will do is,do a 30% and a 40% each a week to keep the nitrates down.The only other question I have is,can I get away with just changing the water twice a week and only gravel cleaning half my tank once a week? Or is changing the water and not gravel cleaning the crap at the bottom at the same time (everytime) defeating the purpose?

 

[cassharper]

I would go ahead and skim the bottom, collecting the detritus that builds up, but save the heavy duty stuff for every other time if you like.