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Okie dokie, guys. I have a proooblem.
My boyfriend and I have a 60 gallon African cichlid tank, and the nitrites are currently off the fucking charts. The tank has been up and running for a couple of months now, and the water was testing fine for the first couple of weeks...but even though we do tiny water changes once a week, the nitrate/nitrite has slowly gotten worse. There's not a lot of ammonia in the water, but there's also a smidge of chlorine in the water, and that is alarming me. We treat the water with Prime, and the tank has an AquaClear filter on it. What could we be doing differently to help keep the nitrite down?
Pic semi-related, it's my face every time I look at a test strip.
My boyfriend and I have a 60 gallon African cichlid tank, and the nitrites are currently off the fucking charts. The tank has been up and running for a couple of months now, and the water was testing fine for the first couple of weeks...but even though we do tiny water changes once a week, the nitrate/nitrite has slowly gotten worse. There's not a lot of ammonia in the water, but there's also a smidge of chlorine in the water, and that is alarming me. We treat the water with Prime, and the tank has an AquaClear filter on it. What could we be doing differently to help keep the nitrite down?
Pic semi-related, it's my face every time I look at a test strip.
