How planted is you're tank and how over stocked are you? Nitrates at 15 is a little high but 20 is the danger zone. If you want to lower then and you can I'd suggest a few faster growing plants.
How planted is you're tank and how over stocked are you? Nitrates at 15 is a little high but 20 is the danger zone. If you want to lower then and you can I'd suggest a few faster growing plants.
like what type? , LFS do have a good selection of live plants in my area, there is plenty of "Anacharis" around here. i have 9 live plants, read aquarium info.
Going back to Carolina's question I struggle to get my planted 60 (uk) gal tank up to 5ppm Nitrates and that is with a 5" common Pleco, 2 ancistrus and a yet to be identified dwarf pleco in there, along with neons, plattys, dannios, mollies, guppies and honey gouramis.
Carolina: Your plants will use the Nitrates as they're made. I use a liquid aquatic plant fert. called Plant grow in my tanks if I think that they need a boost. I use lauterite mixed in with my gravel.
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like what type? , LFS do have a good selection of live plants in my area, there is plenty of "Anacharis" around here. i have 9 live plants, read aquarium info.
What plants you can have will depend on your lighting. http://www.plantgeek.net
Here's a site that has a lot of good info for aquarium plants.
i use flourish like PFP, most (all except one) of my tanks have bettas that don't really give enough of a bioload to keep the nitrates where they should be for plants, so i supplement with the flourish. i also have fluorite/sand substrate in one of the tanks
I put a plant feed grit under the substrate in the tanks and make sure when I put the plants in that I get the roots down into the grit.
Well, that is a new idea to me. I mixed red bag kitty litter, sand and ferts into dirt and then topped it with flourite. El Natural style and mineralized substrate combined.
I guess from Jonah, it isn't important to establish high nitrate level.
like what type? , LFS do have a good selection of live plants in my area, there is plenty of "Anacharis" around here. i have 9 live plants, read aquarium info.
Anacharis are quite easy to grow and good for absorbing nitrites. Their leaves have changed in my tank and now it looks like Tonia plant.
My nitrates in my 60 and 70 gallon tanks is pretty much always at 25 to 30 ppm. My 30gallon with goldfish is around 50 ppm. My 10 gallon tank is around 20 ppm. The nitrates in my well water are around 15ppm I do water changes every 3 to 5 days but this is killing my septic system. At any rate good luck in raising your nitrate level if you want I could send you some water with a lot of it in there LOL......
My nitrates in my 60 and 70 gallon tanks is pretty much always at 25 to 30 ppm. My 30gallon with goldfish is around 50 ppm. My 10 gallon tank is around 20 ppm.
I wonder if adding some floating plants, like anarchin or hornwort would lower the nitrates.
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