My aquarium is set up as follows:
less then 1 month old Oceanic Biocube 14 Gal. stocked with 15 lbs of sand (2.5-3 Inch bed) I got the sand off of a beach on Kodiak, AK. And about 20 lbs of fiji live rock.
I have the following critters in my aquarium:
2 Banded Coral Shrimp (received one extra on accident), 30+ culture of Green Center Button Polyps, 1 ORA Xenia - Silver, 7 turbo snails, 1 condy anemone
In the past 36 hours I have lost 1 Bubble tip anemone that died within 12 hours of receiving it and 2 cleaner clams also dead within 12 hours. they were both in poor condition when they arrived so i wasnt sure if that was from my tank or not, on the other hand I had a clownfish for about 1.5 weeks doing fine all along until this morning i found it dead and immiedately tested my water and found nitrite higher then .5 all mariene life that was still alive looked pretty rough when i found the dead clown fish.
In the last 24 hours AFTER the BT and Cleaner Clams were discarder I went and bought a night stand for my tank as it was on the floor before and I had gone to the beach to get 15 lbs of sand. I planed on using the local sand because the live sand i ordered got stirred up so easy and looked gross. So i took out all live rock and critters and placed them in a holding tank and completely emptied my and cleaned my biocube. I set it up on the new stand, added my own sand, set up live rock how i wanted and filled the tank 1/3 with new clean water. I then added 1/3 of old water i had in holding tank and begun acclimating as i slowly added the last 1/3 of water as new water while circulation and acclimation in process. after about 45 min i had added everything into the new tank and it was looking the best it ever had yet. I was excited about the new sand. I did not test anything other then the pH, sg and temp. at around 12 am everything looks great and normal and i went to bed. waking up at 9am this morning my condy anemone was out of the place it had been since i got it. and no sight of clown fish. I finally found the fish lodged under a rock dead. he was kinda brownish. I tested the water and found high nitrite.
since this morning I have done a 50% water change, and removed bio balls from my system, nitrites are still at >.5 so idk what to do next.
less then 1 month old Oceanic Biocube 14 Gal. stocked with 15 lbs of sand (2.5-3 Inch bed) I got the sand off of a beach on Kodiak, AK. And about 20 lbs of fiji live rock.
I have the following critters in my aquarium:
2 Banded Coral Shrimp (received one extra on accident), 30+ culture of Green Center Button Polyps, 1 ORA Xenia - Silver, 7 turbo snails, 1 condy anemone
In the past 36 hours I have lost 1 Bubble tip anemone that died within 12 hours of receiving it and 2 cleaner clams also dead within 12 hours. they were both in poor condition when they arrived so i wasnt sure if that was from my tank or not, on the other hand I had a clownfish for about 1.5 weeks doing fine all along until this morning i found it dead and immiedately tested my water and found nitrite higher then .5 all mariene life that was still alive looked pretty rough when i found the dead clown fish.
In the last 24 hours AFTER the BT and Cleaner Clams were discarder I went and bought a night stand for my tank as it was on the floor before and I had gone to the beach to get 15 lbs of sand. I planed on using the local sand because the live sand i ordered got stirred up so easy and looked gross. So i took out all live rock and critters and placed them in a holding tank and completely emptied my and cleaned my biocube. I set it up on the new stand, added my own sand, set up live rock how i wanted and filled the tank 1/3 with new clean water. I then added 1/3 of old water i had in holding tank and begun acclimating as i slowly added the last 1/3 of water as new water while circulation and acclimation in process. after about 45 min i had added everything into the new tank and it was looking the best it ever had yet. I was excited about the new sand. I did not test anything other then the pH, sg and temp. at around 12 am everything looks great and normal and i went to bed. waking up at 9am this morning my condy anemone was out of the place it had been since i got it. and no sight of clown fish. I finally found the fish lodged under a rock dead. he was kinda brownish. I tested the water and found high nitrite.
since this morning I have done a 50% water change, and removed bio balls from my system, nitrites are still at >.5 so idk what to do next.
