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- From: dominick@protocol.zycad.com (Dom Paniscotti)
- Newsgroups: rec.aquaria
- Subject: Re: High nitrates [M][FILTRATION]
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:02:59 -0500
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- |> First, change as much of the water as you can. Changing 20% only reduces the
- |> nitrate by 20%. Change 99% if you can.
- |>
- I hope you're kidding about the 99% change. I wouldn't go any further than
- 50% (and that's if you're really in trouble). Changing 25% every other day
- for about a week will drop your nitrates significantly given that the water
- you're adding has 0 ppm nitates. Once you're nitrates drop, 10% changes
- weekly should keep it down.
-
- I just didn't want any novices doing 99% water changes, and then wondering why
- all their fish/inverts were dead within a week do their biological filter
- bed going south :-).
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