Those Darn Nitrates.

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Doesn't matter how many fish you have in there, if you've been doing daily water changes it's not going to get that high that quickly.

As I mentioned before it could be the water conditioner you're using skewing the results. Are your fish actually showing any signs of stress?
 
The yellow is out of the faucet. The orange is 5 minutes exactly and I do shake the second bottle plus the vial for a minute. I do use prime for everything, I just ordered two more bottles. Is it like ammonia where it shows ammonia but not the toxic amount?

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Also my fish seem fine. I've lost a few but that could've been for something entirely different. Regarding test results again, if prime skews the results how long after a water change would it affect it?
 
Well Prime will be neutralising most nitrate, anyway.

If that orange colour is what your usual readings are, your tank is healthy. What media/filtration do you have?
 
Chillz23 said:
Well Prime will be neutralising most nitrate, anyway.

If that orange colour is what your usual readings are, your tank is healthy. What media/filtration do you have?
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It's usually darker. I can't wait a week or it gets darker. Should I still wait a week or do every other day? Also I never seem to have nitrites? My nitrates just seem to be so high, my brothers tank have 0. I thought about upping my pump? I have lava rock, scrubbing, sponges and filter floss.
 
FinFun said:
I have read and read on cycling but perhaps I'm paranoid and am not fully understanding it.
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The fact that you have no nitrites means that your tank is cycled properly. The fact that you have nitrates means that the tank is cycled properly. The whole point of the nitrogen cycle is to turn toxic ammonia into toxic nitrites into less toxic nitrates. The cycle will not get rid of nitrates, it will increase them. Cycling is not your problem, it's stocking and wc frequency. But I have to agree that the color looks to be slightly above 20 ppm to me, which isn't horrible, totally normal that it gets to that point before a wc
 
Oh good! :) I've worried for nothing. I'd still use the prime during a water change right?
 
Im same with u, I always have 20ppm nitrate after water change, but I just got 1 jardini in a 200 gal tank, and do u have some ammonia too in ur tank?
 
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