water change

[jackal]

My NO3 is high. I did about 70% of water changed. Is it ok?

I also put in de-nitrate, lessen feeding to twice a day for my 7 fishes, change my filter wool, upgrade my skimmer to Micro AS-300p for my 3feet tank. Will these help?

Thank you.

[minsmarine]

How high is high.

Believe you are using reliable test kit.

what are the LS ?

Sump ?

Need these info to assist you.

Bigger skimmer better. If you could overdrive skimmer better.

[jackal]

Mine is internal overflow sump and using Sera Test and Tetra Test for NO3 check. Test result is more than 40mg/l (RED colour chart) for both.

BTW what is LS?

Thanks for your help

[salivateforme]

BTW what is LS?

LS=Life Stock

LR=Live Rock

and 70% water change? Wow...that might be a shock for some fish...always go slow.

Has your tank cycled?

also, I think one of the test kits u mentioned requires a further division...

[kokhui]

LS means Live Stock ie your corals, fish etc. You can find a list of acronyms and what they mean in the forum too! I was blur blur until I read it!

There is a lot of discussion on water change in SRC. You can try doing a search on it here.

IMO,Having a good skimmer, lessen feeding and water change will help.

As for test kits, make sure that the instructions for doing the tests were followed closely, like shake the mixture after mixing etc. I use Tetra test kit for nitrate as well. Looks OK for me so far.

[tineng]

My NO3 is high. I did about 70% of water changed. Is it ok?

I also put in de-nitrate, lessen feeding to twice a day for my 7 fishes, change my filter wool, upgrade my skimmer to Micro AS-300p for my 3feet tank. Will these help?

Thank you.

its not the number of time you feed your fishes.....its the amount of food you give them.....feed slowly and observe the amount of food that your fish doesn't pick up....adjust your amount such that no food is wasted..

it might also help if you have bottom feeder.....

for filter wool, you do need to clean them quite often, i used to do it twice a week (but now i don't put in filter wool already.... )

another thing that people miss out is circulation.....make sure you have sufficient circulation so that dirt doesn't settle down to your sandbed easily....

[silverfish]

Hi.. You might want to consider using AZNO3 to reduce your nitrate level. It cost about $35 a bottle and should reduce your nitrate to acceptable level within a week.

[jackal]

Thanks for all the kind advice. For LS, I have Royal gamma, Yellow Tank, Blue Tank, Maroon Clown, Percular Clown, Flame Angel, DR Fish, 2 Star Fish, Sea Cucumber, 2 crabs, Sea Urchin, 2 Turbo snails and cleaner shrimp. Did I overstock?

I also have a good collection of both soft and hard corals. They are doing well.

My Marine Tank is about 9 months with good circulation.

[Achilles Tang]

Hi, please read this about being more descriptive in your topic titles and pm me to change the title for you.

Thanks!

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