please help fish sitter over fead my tank

[boots]

the test kit that i am using is tetra
how often should i keep doing water changes (besides the regular once a week)
every 3 to 4 days or would that be to much or would that work at say 5% instead of 10%

[68shelby]

read my posts I went thru the exact same problems I was going crazy doing water changes, that I didnt need to. Go and get a ELOS aqua test kit. On the eos kit my nitrates are at 5 ppm. an the hagen kit I had they wouldnt come down below 20ppm after back to back 50% changes.

[boots]

realy thanks i think i will give that a try towmorow

[68shelby]

Did you get a new test kit? And if so how did it go?

[intarsiabox]

When I go on holidays I pre-measure my daily food rations into an ice cube tray for my fish sitter. This way I can still control the amount of food given when I'm away and don't have to worry about over feeding.

I agree that a Tetra kit may not be the most reliable. Try testing a newly mixed batch of salt water and see if the Tetra kit reads close to zero for nitrates, if it is still showing 50ppm then you know your kit should be thrown out.

[boots]

i did get a new test kit and and had the same readings.
however with a few water changes they are slowly going down.
they are down to around 20 ppm now.


thanks all

[Sushiman]

Keep'er up mate. Welcome aboard!