Finally my Clown Hosted my new giganteas, but.....

[Donly1]

The orange one just hosted today. Will my black one host the same anemone, or will they fight over it? Also my No3 spiked when I added the Blue Carpet. See photo since that was one day after a 50% water change. Any suggestions on keeping the No3 down?

 

[ctlegacy]

Run the test again... That's a HUGE amount of nitrates and have NOTHING else. Are you dosing anything that could throw off the test?

 

[Donly1]

I just did a 50% change on friday, and another 50% change on monday and still showing 80ppm on nitrates. I have no idea what's up. I am going through a lot of salt, and ro water. Any ideas?

 

[Bluecanary]

I had the same issue with my carpet, turned out it was sick and died and man it smelled so nasty I thought I was gonna loose my fish but luckily everything survived,

 

[Donly1]

Looks ok

Looks ok

Here is a photo from last night. How does it look to you all?

 

[DasCamel]

Looks ok there, just a bit bleached. Does it expand or contract? Mouth open, any discharge? Just things to look for if its sick.

 

[Donly1]

I took some advice about the different test kits. I took my water 2 a couple of Lfs and watch them do a test. Both said that your water is perfect. They do not shake the bottle or the test tubes for nitrate after they cap them. The instructions clearly state to shake the nitrate tube for at least one minute. That's what I've been doing. I took my test kit which expires in 2017 and did a test, shaking the bottles a bit, and the nitrate tube for one full minute after dropping, and the another tube with no shaking. Welcome to find out the tube with no shaking looks awesome, but when you shake the nitrate tube for 1 minute after put the cap on it it shows almost 80 parts per million difference. Has anyone else had this issue?

 

[Dkuhlmann]

LOL come on, you've got 5 threads all with the same thing just in this forum. I think I saw another couple in other forums.


WHY?

 

[OrionN]

For further discussion on this problem we should use this thread:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2538429&page=3

 

[shifty51008]

The api nitrate test is horriable i would suggest looking into salifert