hiya everyone~ i have noticed that lately my nitrites and nitrate levels are really high so i went to my lfs and basically the guy who i deal with all the time said that the city water has high nitrite and nitrate levls he said to get a nitrate something i put it in my filter i mean I can do a complete water change and the nitrites and nitrates are high what can i do to help bring them down from the tap i use the tap conditioner etc but these nitrites and nitrate levels got me going as i know that there is no way that both can be so high i even went so far as to buy another freshwater master test kit and it is still the same from both tap and in the tank ??? anyone have a solution to this? all my other test are in the perfect range except these 2

there is stuff out there that will help keep the nitrates down, I think its call Nitrasorb something like that, you place it in front or in your canister filter and it will absorb the nirtates in the water......

thank you koko i am going to go get some of that tommorrow this way the levels come down man it has been driving me i'm shocked it hasnt affected my fish

Well if you use prime and that stuff what it does is binds it so that it wont harm the fish but its still in there, now if you use both it will help them alot

i am going to get both and i was also thinking about next month doing a planted tank with CO2 system I am hoping that that will help with it as well

Becareful, you need to balance out the tank, too much co2 and you can kill the fish

ouch dont want to kill my fish i guess i'll just do planted not going to mess with CO2 never did that before so if i'm not exp definitely not willing to use my fish as experiment i'll just do planted fully no co2

Now there is 2 ways to go to a planted tank with out all the co2 messy stuff,,,,


http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod...3&N=2004+113779
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod...1&N=2004+113779

I did the second one with my 37 gal tank, the only draw back is that the container is very smelly