My tests are reading 80 for Nitrate which is unsafe, low alkalinity, and the water is acidic. What should I do?
Whats up with my Tank?
- Thread starter Dempseygunz
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Sounds like your recycling your tank. Did you keep any of your used filter media that already had beneficial bacteria?
You know how you have to cycle a tank, it seems like your going through the process again and going through a bacterial bloom.
You say it's all the same media from the old tank. Did it dry out while you were transporting it?
Dempseygunz;3888132; said:Well it froze and I had to thaw it out. But it sort of dried out...
Well there is your problem, you flushed a bunch of dead bacteria in your tank. I can almost guarantee your ammonia and nitrates are high. Test your water, and then start doing water changes until the levels start going down.
