Susanedw
Well-Known Member
My tank, started mid Dec. has always had 0 nitrites and low nitrates. I do a weekly or weekly plus a couple days water change. I've had no nitrates for a while, even posted about it as my xenia and torch started doing poorly and the xenia likes some nitrates.
yesterday, my nitrites were .5 and nitrates 5. I did about an 8 gal water change, maybe 9 (RS Max c250 66 gal tank including sump--46 gal max aquarium. 45 lbs dry rock, I think 60 lb live sand, cycled with biospira)
Possible causes:
--dead snails or hermits--I am not seeing as many hermits.
--Added a tiger tail sea slug on the 28th and haven't seen him since he buried himself in sand. --Researched and found they won't crash tank just up numbers.
--A bit of overfeeding but nothing different than what I've been doing as I've been trying to feed an ailing gbta and a scooter blenny (who now knows what a turkey baster is and gets enough food) so not having to over feed so much.
--I added a small bottle of copepods but a lot were dead. This on Sunday
--Missing yellow watchman goby but he's very teeny 1.25x.24. Added a equally small pistol shrimp and haven't seen eithr. Had snails and crabs blocking his little cave so don't know if he died there or went to another rock grouping where shrimp disappeared into.
Nitrites today a bit lower: between .2 and .5. Should I do a water change every day? Wait for tomorrow? Give it a couple days? Don't want to overstress with water changes but want to get the nitrites back to 0. No ammonia per my ammonia alert tag in tank
Algae is getting better. Tank still in ugly stage. Water pretty clear today except when the sand sifting goby stirs things up. Yesterday, I added another bag of carbon, replaced the chemi pure. Tank real cloudy yesterday. Also rinsed out the foam blocks and scraped algae.
More on my tank in sig.
yesterday, my nitrites were .5 and nitrates 5. I did about an 8 gal water change, maybe 9 (RS Max c250 66 gal tank including sump--46 gal max aquarium. 45 lbs dry rock, I think 60 lb live sand, cycled with biospira)
Possible causes:
--dead snails or hermits--I am not seeing as many hermits.
--Added a tiger tail sea slug on the 28th and haven't seen him since he buried himself in sand. --Researched and found they won't crash tank just up numbers.
--A bit of overfeeding but nothing different than what I've been doing as I've been trying to feed an ailing gbta and a scooter blenny (who now knows what a turkey baster is and gets enough food) so not having to over feed so much.
--I added a small bottle of copepods but a lot were dead. This on Sunday
--Missing yellow watchman goby but he's very teeny 1.25x.24. Added a equally small pistol shrimp and haven't seen eithr. Had snails and crabs blocking his little cave so don't know if he died there or went to another rock grouping where shrimp disappeared into.
Nitrites today a bit lower: between .2 and .5. Should I do a water change every day? Wait for tomorrow? Give it a couple days? Don't want to overstress with water changes but want to get the nitrites back to 0. No ammonia per my ammonia alert tag in tank
Algae is getting better. Tank still in ugly stage. Water pretty clear today except when the sand sifting goby stirs things up. Yesterday, I added another bag of carbon, replaced the chemi pure. Tank real cloudy yesterday. Also rinsed out the foam blocks and scraped algae.
More on my tank in sig.