The Puffer Forum

So, ever since last weekend my stars and stripes puffer stays dark green/black most of the time. I finally figured out what was wrong i think. I had a diamond goby that went missing, and he finally showed up today...dead and basically decomposing in my tank. i immediately removed it from my tank and checked my water parameters and they were:
pH-8.2ppm
Ammonia - 0ppm
Nitrite - 0ppm
Nitrate - 160ppm!!!!! holy cow!!! major spike from 20ppm just a week and a half ago...
salinity - 1.020

So my nitrates have gone through the roof!!! What do i do? I really don't wanna lose my S&S puffer! i immediately did a 20% water change in hopes that would start to bring the nitrates down, but what else should i do? thanks for your help i have never had my nitrates shoot up so fast.

Zach

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I'm curious, are there no live pods in your tank? How much LR in there? If anything dies in my tank, it's instantly swarmed by pods & stripped to the bone in minutes!

The NitrAte is not as deadly as the NitrIte or Ammonia, but still dangerous. Just do a lot of water changes and run and clean the skimmer on doubletime.