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strange chemistry......
I've got somethign I've never seen before. I havea "new" (about 2 months
old) 125 lightly planted tank, witha variety of fish in it. After the initial cycling, the chemistry had setteld down to a pretty "normal" ballance, and was staying nice and constant (light presence of nitrates, no ammonia, teeny bit of nitrite). Then, overnight, *everything* went to zero - none of the test kits show the presence of any nitrate, ammonia, or nitrite. I've never had to add any suplements to any of my other tanks, (similar set ups), and I've always (and still do, so the test kits are OK) had traces showing up...... any ideas? thansk --JD |
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strange chemistry......
Do you have the same plants in all of the tanks? Maybe you added a plant
that loves nitrates? Is the fish load similar between these tanks? What about lighting? Ron "jduprie" wrote in message news:z3Qpa.602410$L1.171543@sccrnsc02... I've got somethign I've never seen before. I havea "new" (about 2 months old) 125 lightly planted tank, witha variety of fish in it. After the initial cycling, the chemistry had setteld down to a pretty "normal" ballance, and was staying nice and constant (light presence of nitrates, no ammonia, teeny bit of nitrite). Then, overnight, *everything* went to zero - none of the test kits show the presence of any nitrate, ammonia, or nitrite. I've never had to add any suplements to any of my other tanks, (similar set ups), and I've always (and still do, so the test kits are OK) had traces showing up...... any ideas? thansk --JD |
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strange chemistry......
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strange chemistry......
yep, tanks are pretty much identical. the only difference (other than size)
is that I've still got a bunch of "starter" (read disposable, expected to die off) fishin teh new tank - they're a locally available generic feeder fish - a kind of whitish minnow, sot sure of what they really are..... Other than that, the tanks are the same... thanks --JD "Ron Nelson" wrote in message ... Do you have the same plants in all of the tanks? Maybe you added a plant that loves nitrates? Is the fish load similar between these tanks? What about lighting? Ron "jduprie" wrote in message news:z3Qpa.602410$L1.171543@sccrnsc02... I've got somethign I've never seen before. I havea "new" (about 2 months old) 125 lightly planted tank, witha variety of fish in it. After the initial cycling, the chemistry had setteld down to a pretty "normal" ballance, and was staying nice and constant (light presence of nitrates, no ammonia, teeny bit of nitrite). Then, overnight, *everything* went to zero - none of the test kits show the presence of any nitrate, ammonia, or nitrite. I've never had to add any suplements to any of my other tanks, (similar set ups), and I've always (and still do, so the test kits are OK) had traces showing up...... any ideas? thansk --JD |
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strange chemistry......
Hmm... One thought would be that the plants were utilizing ammonia as a
nitrogen source while the tank was getting cycled and until the levels of nitrates rose to some point, the plants were not trying to utilize nitrates for nitrogen. Not sure. But unless your fish load is going to be large enough to provide the nitrates your plants desire you will need to provide some additional nitrates for optimum plant growth. Ron "jduprie" wrote in message news yep, tanks are pretty much identical. the only difference (other than size) is that I've still got a bunch of "starter" (read disposable, expected to die off) fishin teh new tank - they're a locally available generic feeder fish - a kind of whitish minnow, sot sure of what they really are..... Other than that, the tanks are the same... thanks --JD "Ron Nelson" wrote in message ... Do you have the same plants in all of the tanks? Maybe you added a plant that loves nitrates? Is the fish load similar between these tanks? What about lighting? Ron "jduprie" wrote in message news:z3Qpa.602410$L1.171543@sccrnsc02... I've got somethign I've never seen before. I havea "new" (about 2 months old) 125 lightly planted tank, witha variety of fish in it. After the initial cycling, the chemistry had setteld down to a pretty "normal" ballance, and was staying nice and constant (light presence of nitrates, no ammonia, teeny bit of nitrite). Then, overnight, *everything* went to zero - none of the test kits show the presence of any nitrate, ammonia, or nitrite. I've never had to add any suplements to any of my other tanks, (similar set ups), and I've always (and still do, so the test kits are OK) had traces showing up...... any ideas? thansk --JD |
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