Fish Tank Supplies

I have a 30 gallon salt water tank, and i had 2 clown fish that died in my tank. I think its because of the nitrite level is high, so i want to change the water of my tank, but how much should i change and how many time should i change it. (Rember i have a 30 gallon)

What ways are good to keep the Nitrite (NOT NITRATE) level down?

OK first of all didn’t rule out phosphate as a problem i didn’t think this was my problem yet all my levels were fine. the phosphate caused me to loose lots of bacteria on my live rock as well as a fair few fish including my praised flame angel : (. also make sure your filters are working properly. IMPORTANT do not clean it out. however you can clean out the final layer of your filter which will be a sponge or similar used to collect the very fine particles just before the water reenters the tank. these particles often cannot break down in filters so you must remove them manually(not fun). another thing to check is ammonia nitrite basically consumes the ammonia and therefore breeds and becomes abundant. so you need to look at ammonia first. now to lower ammonia feed less, have less fish, have more live rock with good amounts of purple and pink bacteria(i suggest a product called purple up), better filtration. now the thing that eats nitrite is nitrate so possibly turn off your protein skimmer for a week (as it removes nitrate) so as to create a small amount of nitrate which will eliminate the problem if nitrite and then be easy to get rid of by turning the protein skimmer back on (be sure to have a good protein skimmer. i stress check for phosphate and use the product “purple up”. as far as water changes the general rule is change between 15%-25% of your total volume every month (less if you have a good, stable system running) if you have a spike(quick growth in nitrate, nitrite or ammonia) or ust bad levels it is ok to change up to 50% per week i would do a change of 25% 2 times a week. also do not touch the substrate while doing this you will unbalance the creatures that live in it ( you probably dont know they’re even there and it will kick up lots of bad stuff into the water with a number of bad outcomes resulting.

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