How to Maintain Nitrogen Level in Your Aquarium

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Sally from expertvillage.com from Fish Fantasy in Riverside. We are going to be speaking about how to buy healthy fish. Once again, you have to build up a nitrogen cycle so it takes anywhere from 2 to 3 weeks to build up on the pond. So the gold fish can handle the ammonia a lot better than the Coy. They are much hardier. So they can live through the cycling process and you don't want to spend $15 on a Coy when you can spend 10 for a $1 on goldfish. If you lose some, it's not such a loss. Nitrus Amoneous , nitro bacter bacteria convert your amonia to nitrie and then once again to nitrate and you do a weekly portion on ponds or every two weeks you do a 10 percent on ponds you do a partial. That means remove some water out and replace with fresh water. Always add your chloramine remover because they add chlorine and chloramine to the water which is a mixture of chlorine and ammonia. "