high nitrate

I have a 29 gallon aquarium that has been set up for around 8 weeks. Here are the current parameters as of yesterday. PH - 6.2 Am - 0 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - somewhere between 20 and 40 KH - 4 GH - 5 Everything zeroed out about three weeks ago and I can't seem to get the nitrate below...

Hey guys! This is my first time posting but I've been lurking the forums for a year or two now taking advice passively and incorporating everything I've learned into my tank. The setup is technically 3 or 4 years old but has been reincarnated a few times keeping essentially the same stock but...

Hey planted tank people, anyone experience pulling up these fertilizer when uprooting plants for trimming? I have a high a nitrate problem and i'm thinking its due to me uprooting these tabs? I don't have any algae either, so I'm not sure if they are leeching excess nutrients or maybe they're...