 Re: Help me and my nitrates!
JohnO,
I'll try and get a sample in there tonight - I'll take a sample of both the new water and water from my tank and see what they come up with. However, my nitrate test does register different amounts as it has been showing lower levels up until this past week. That all being said, you have any initial thoughts about what might be wrong if it's not the water? If it weren't for the high nitrate levels, I'd assume it were just a normal algae bloom for a "young" tank, but I don't think the nitrate levels are supposed to come along with that... Would die off of that algae cause nitrates to go up that high? I tried once to remove the algae from the substrate as it was almost completely covering it, so I'm sure I didn't get it all out and there was some die off in the tank, but wouldn't expect it to be that much.
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55 gal glass tank, 2 power heads, wet/dry filter, protein skimmer, 50 lbs live rock, pair of tomato clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 coral beauty angel, 1 six line wrasse, 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 12 assorted snails (astrea/turbo), 15 assorted hermit crabs, green bubble tip anemone, red mushrooms, yellow polyps, 1 green leather, green star polyps, yellow toadstool | 
