water test results
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I never saw how big your tank is, what type of food do you feed and what bio-load (Fish) in tank. I have an fx5 on 2 of my tanks and they get clear over night when I do a tank cleaning and filter change. Are you cleaning the sponges on fx. You might want to try a diatom filter if you want crystal clear water. I use mine all the time after a water change and my water gets very clear and no floaties in the water. I use it on all 5 of my currently set up tanks. As for your test parameters, they are fine, if you do a 40% weekly water change you will not see nitrates, all the rest are within parameters as you want them. If a fish is gasping, maybe it was stressed or do you have airstones in tank.
I dont understand why your worried? No3 at 0 and No2 at 0 is a good thing. If your worried about water clairity go get a Total Disolved Solids (TDS) meter and check. It will tell you how many particles are floating around in the water. If your doing 40% water changes a week you should have no problems.
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Tank is 100 g, stock is juvi cichlids, i feed cichlids gold pellet. I cleaned the sponges last week, i will do it monthly, i believe the fish was stressed unsure why. My tank looks fine from the front only a few particals, but from the side it is murky and i can not see all the way to the other end,
as stated above, if you are concerned that your test kits are not working right, take a sample to someone else. otherwise no worries. i have the same particle problem myself, going to add more mechanical filtration....
I'm sorry but it is highly unlikely that he has no nitrates at all. Most tap water has nitrates in it. If he's using an RO/DI unit it will have none. Even if that's the case I still think it's extremely unlikely that he has none at all. Just saying.. I'm sure the params are fine if he's doing 40% water changes. My only point is that the test kit is probably faulty because I find it unlikely that he has .o Nitrates, but maybe..
Like the others have stated ammonia 0 and nitrite 0 is good, but you should be getting some sort of reading on nitrate. Make sure you shake the Bottles for the Nitrate test vigorously, like you would a shakeweight.
