Water tests

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
With that much stock your nitrates should be a lot higher than 2.5. Make sure you are shaking the testers a full minute or two or they can test lower than they actually are. What kind of filtration do you have on your tank? You should think about changing the water when it gets above the 10-20ppm mark.
 
Nitrate results sound like that of improper testing.
 
Pretty much bang on the line. Going to test ammonia nitrite and nitrate again

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Basically the same outcome. Looks like no nitrite this time.
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I am thinking that you are still not shaking bottle number 2 enough, both in the bottle and when mixed with number 1. As I like to say: "Shake that bottle like it owes you money!"

You have so much stock that your nitrate levels don't make any sense unless you literally just changed 75+% of your water. Nitrates represent the end product of the nitrogen cycle and have no way of exiting the tank except through water changes and/or significant hydroponics set up and so will continue to raise. I have a 125 with one oscar, one severum and a pleco and the nitrates go up to 20ppm by end of the week. I do 90% water changes once a week. I have lots of filtration (x15 turnover) and have two pothos filters running on the tank.
 
Is it possible the test solution is bad? I shook the vials like a paint shaker. Left my arm soar.

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Okay just thought id make sure, more often then not when you get 0 nitrate its do to the test not being done accurate:) Yeah id try a new test kit then.
 
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