I am struggling with high Nitrates on one of my tanks right now and was wondering if I introduced some plants to the tank if that would help????
I picked up a free tank that came with fish that had not been properly maintained and now I am fighting with OTS (Old Tank Syndrom). If I bring the Nitrate levels down too quickly it will kill the fish. Doing 25% WC every second day and have the readings down to between 40-80 PPM now... that is down by half at least - the inital readings were off the charts.
I am assuming that the plants would just continually draw from the nitrates and as long as I don't add too many it shouldn't change the levels drastically... would it?
I was thinking of a couple of small bamboo plants - base in the water and leaves out the top of the tank. They are in a barebottom tank right now - just trying to keep up with the waste level so there is really nothing to secure a plant to the bottom - and I have no idea of the fish will eat the plants anyway: 2 goldfish, 1 pleco, 1 black shark, 1 angel, 1 golden loach, 2 tetras (of some sort).
If anyone has a better plant to use - please let me know and I will see if I can find it. I have to get these fish healthy so that I can get rid of them.... Anyone want free fish?
I picked up a free tank that came with fish that had not been properly maintained and now I am fighting with OTS (Old Tank Syndrom). If I bring the Nitrate levels down too quickly it will kill the fish. Doing 25% WC every second day and have the readings down to between 40-80 PPM now... that is down by half at least - the inital readings were off the charts.
I am assuming that the plants would just continually draw from the nitrates and as long as I don't add too many it shouldn't change the levels drastically... would it?
I was thinking of a couple of small bamboo plants - base in the water and leaves out the top of the tank. They are in a barebottom tank right now - just trying to keep up with the waste level so there is really nothing to secure a plant to the bottom - and I have no idea of the fish will eat the plants anyway: 2 goldfish, 1 pleco, 1 black shark, 1 angel, 1 golden loach, 2 tetras (of some sort).
If anyone has a better plant to use - please let me know and I will see if I can find it. I have to get these fish healthy so that I can get rid of them.... Anyone want free fish?
