Tank is a 46 gallon bowfront
Stock is a tiger oscar(2 1/2"), 2 clown loaches (1 1/2"), and 2 geos(surinamensis... 2")
Filtration is 1 penguin 350 biowheel filter.
I do about 30-40 pct water change every tuesday.
So i checked my water parameters yesterday with the "strips" kit and my nitrite/nitrate were very high. Today i went and bought myself a liquid test kit, the master one, and get the same results. I am going to be doing my water change today instead of tomorrow since im worried about this...
What could this be? I know BB breaks down ammonia into nitrite and then nitrate, and the only biofiltration i have is the biowheels on the penguin 350 filter which are a POS. I have a rena xp3 on a 75 gallon that has Bioballs and the water parameters there are perfect and we use the same water... That tank also has more fish/volume.
What are my options as far as getting my levels to never be this high again, i know a canister filter with alot of media is a good one, but is there any less expensive way?
Heres a pic of the reading i got.. :'(
The good part is that my fish seem to act perfectly fine..
PH is from 7.2-7.6
Ammonia is at 0
Nitrite is like at 5.0
Nitrate at around 80
Stock is a tiger oscar(2 1/2"), 2 clown loaches (1 1/2"), and 2 geos(surinamensis... 2")
Filtration is 1 penguin 350 biowheel filter.
I do about 30-40 pct water change every tuesday.
So i checked my water parameters yesterday with the "strips" kit and my nitrite/nitrate were very high. Today i went and bought myself a liquid test kit, the master one, and get the same results. I am going to be doing my water change today instead of tomorrow since im worried about this...
What could this be? I know BB breaks down ammonia into nitrite and then nitrate, and the only biofiltration i have is the biowheels on the penguin 350 filter which are a POS. I have a rena xp3 on a 75 gallon that has Bioballs and the water parameters there are perfect and we use the same water... That tank also has more fish/volume.
What are my options as far as getting my levels to never be this high again, i know a canister filter with alot of media is a good one, but is there any less expensive way?
Heres a pic of the reading i got.. :'(
The good part is that my fish seem to act perfectly fine..
PH is from 7.2-7.6
Ammonia is at 0
Nitrite is like at 5.0
Nitrate at around 80
