Crazy fishes
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Ok I wish to request your help from the beginning......... SH I am sorry if I have offended you at all. Please forgive my forwardness is not meant to be difficult or aggressive at all but I am very passionate about learning full stop. Once again I am sorry. I now REALLY need to ask for your help and I will follow it unquestioningly. Ski or anyone else who feels that they can help please do so because your experience is very much appreciated as well.
I have a 24g D&D nano cube which is at present 4 weeks and 2 days old. I left the stock filter and pump in that is all the sponges, bio balls, ceramics and 2x carbon. I have also added a bag of Rowaphos, De nitrate and Purigen. I added a koralia nano to aid circulation and a 100w heater. So far is there any problems with this? After running the tank for a day with RO water. I added the salt (Red sea coral pro salt) and got to the temperature to 26C and the specific gravity to 1.024. Later that day I went to the LFS and he advised that I should added live rock now. 10.4kg of live rock and aragonite sand (NOT live) was added. It was left to cycle then for 9 days when I tested the water at the LFS and found that the NH3=0 NO2=0 NO3=10 pH=8.4. Day 10 saw the cleanup crew entering the tank to take care of the algae bloom that was well underway. 7 days later I got some fish 2 clowns (tank bred). I waited another week and got two corals; a palythoa and GSP. The palythoa has been good since I got it but the GSP has not shown any more than 4 or so polyps. It has been placed in three different locals and seems to like where it is at the moment. Water chemistry has been abit all over the place. pH keeps going low the lowest is 7.6 and my cleaner shrimp was dead in the tank this morning. However the ammonia and nitrite have remaind 0 throughout pretty much..... which is always good. It was the Kh and pH as well as the calcium and trace elements which I think are fluctuating. I have been adding carbonate buffer and calcium supplements. The latest test of chemistry was done yesterday and showed that ammonia and nitrite were 0 nitrate was 5ppm, Kh was 13, pH was 7.8-8.0, Calcium was 440ppm phosphate was 0ppm. I am clueless about how to stabilise the tank and so for the time being will not do anything.
As I said above please reply with any ideas you have and comments.
Regards
I have a 24g D&D nano cube which is at present 4 weeks and 2 days old. I left the stock filter and pump in that is all the sponges, bio balls, ceramics and 2x carbon. I have also added a bag of Rowaphos, De nitrate and Purigen. I added a koralia nano to aid circulation and a 100w heater. So far is there any problems with this? After running the tank for a day with RO water. I added the salt (Red sea coral pro salt) and got to the temperature to 26C and the specific gravity to 1.024. Later that day I went to the LFS and he advised that I should added live rock now. 10.4kg of live rock and aragonite sand (NOT live) was added. It was left to cycle then for 9 days when I tested the water at the LFS and found that the NH3=0 NO2=0 NO3=10 pH=8.4. Day 10 saw the cleanup crew entering the tank to take care of the algae bloom that was well underway. 7 days later I got some fish 2 clowns (tank bred). I waited another week and got two corals; a palythoa and GSP. The palythoa has been good since I got it but the GSP has not shown any more than 4 or so polyps. It has been placed in three different locals and seems to like where it is at the moment. Water chemistry has been abit all over the place. pH keeps going low the lowest is 7.6 and my cleaner shrimp was dead in the tank this morning. However the ammonia and nitrite have remaind 0 throughout pretty much..... which is always good. It was the Kh and pH as well as the calcium and trace elements which I think are fluctuating. I have been adding carbonate buffer and calcium supplements. The latest test of chemistry was done yesterday and showed that ammonia and nitrite were 0 nitrate was 5ppm, Kh was 13, pH was 7.8-8.0, Calcium was 440ppm phosphate was 0ppm. I am clueless about how to stabilise the tank and so for the time being will not do anything.
As I said above please reply with any ideas you have and comments.
Regards