General Care Discussion :: Water Quality

Taking care of your turtle's overall health.

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Post Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:46 pm   

API Freshwater Master Test Kit
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Post Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:22 pm   

Yeah 40ppm nitrate is when you should definitely do a change. I change my water when it gets to about 20-30ppm.
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:35 pm   

just tested my nitrates again and it is still at 40. i'll do another water change today but is there anything else i can do that will lower nitrates? something like cleaning some of the bio media in tap water?
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:23 pm   

Cleaning some of the biomedia would do basically nothing. The bacteria that live in the biomedia are what turn ammonia into nitrite, then nitrate. So you may get a bit of an ammonia spike if you clean the biomedia, but not likely, since the bacteria that's in the rest of the media would quickly recolonize the new media.
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:50 pm   

i'll just keep changing the water. i went to petsmart today to get some Anacharis (okay really i was looking for an excuse to drive in the ice) to try and help it but all the ones they had there looked dead.
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:54 pm   

Yeah, plants will do wonders for your nitrates. (I forgot to mention that! Sorry!). That is, if you can prevent your guy from eating them all :roll:

A while ago, I had a lovely green algae farm growing on Ralph's sleeping platform, and I was really surprised when I tested the nitrates some 4 weeks after my last water change, and they were still low! But I ended up scrubbing it off :/
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:16 pm   

Sorry,I don't know at all about any of that stuff!!!
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:33 pm   

after the i changed the water i tested again after awhile and it dropped down to around a 20 so i guess i'll keep changing more and more water till i get it down again. what is a good level to have the nitrates at?
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