Re: High nitrate in tap water

How big is your tank?
Was that a typo when you said that you've been performing a water change
every 2 weeks for 2 weeks? I assume it is?If you are doing a water change
once every 2 weeks then that probably isn't enough.
I do know that Juwel now make nitrate removing sponges which slot into their
filters. Perhaps you could get hold of some of them and cut them to fit your
filter? Or get yourself a new Juwel tank (although that's rather an
expensive way of going about it!) lol
Mel.

"Graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Just found out that I am fighting a losing battle here :-)
>
> Tank has been setup for a few months now, all fish are fine and ammonia is
0
> and PH is around 7-7.5.  Water looks clear when the tank lights are off,
but
> once they come on there is a kind of milky colour to the water.  This I
> believed was the tank still going though a cycle.  Now after this length
of
> time I not too sure.
>
> While Ammonia and Nitrite are 0, Nitrate is always around 50-100.  This is
> the cause of the cloudy water, as I can't see any other reason.  I have
been
> performing a water change every 2 weeks for about 2 weeks now to try and
> remove the problem, no luck.
>
> I always add Tetra Aquasafe to the water before adding it to the tank, so
> once I made up a bucket of water as I normally do I tested the Nitrates,
and
> it registered at about 50.
>
> So it seems each time I do a water change I just add to the problem.
> Looking at products available (in the UK) to remove or help there is
> Interpet's Nitrasafe, which sounds like it is added into the filter, I
have
> a Fluval Plus 2 filter so not sure if that will fit or even work?
>
> But even if I do add something like that to the tank, when I do water
> changes it will just add the Nitrates back in.  Maybe I should treat water
> before adding it to the tank?
>
> Or maybe there is a solution I am over looking?
>
> Graeme
>
>