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When you did the transfer did you wash the sand? If not, critters in it could have died. As they decay, they release ammonia. Also there could have been a little die off from the live rocks. In any case, the new tank is going through a cycle. Probably very short term until everything rebalances.Ok so I recently bought a 28gal nano cube I transferred all my sand, live rock and water from my already cycled and up for 6 month 29gal tank. Some how when I let the tank settle for 2 days I tested the water and I have .25 ammonia. There are no corals in it now they are all in my regular dt. But I just fragged my gsp cause I have too much in my dt. I was going to put some in the other tank but I don't want to if coral can be hurt by ammonia. Why would I have gotten ammonia into my tank after I switched it over?
No did not wash the sand and had the live rock in the same water in the transfer container it was only out of the water long enough to transfer.When you did the transfer did you wash the sand? If not, critters in it could have died. As they decay, they release ammonia. Also there could have been a little die off from the live rocks. In any case, the new tank is going through a cycle. Probably very short term until everything rebalances.
I have oolite sand it's super fine so I try not to stir it up cause it makes a mess in the water and usually takes a few days to settle again.the sand, detritus in it.
and .25 might still mean zero anyway, google "api false ammonia reading" every reading listed is a .25 or multiple.
if the water doesn't stink and isn't cloudy id not worry about it, because there is no mechanism that overcomes the natural filtration ability of the live rock (which we know cycled systems can digest up to 4+ ppm per day) and leaves only a constant .25 for more than 24 hours.
if something in your tank was leaking raw ammonia to the tune of 5.75 ppm a day, you'd smell it in the house and see the cloud in the water
by rule, the live rock you moved can digest orders more than .25 in 24 hours. wait a day, retest, if its .25 still just ignore it and proceed. rerinse that bed/do over the move if its not too late, we intercept lots of tanks in our sandbed thread and make them 100% clean before reinstall to prevent cycling.
if the sandbed can be stirred up and makes a cloud mess in the tank, that's a big suspect and doing it over will help you on upcoming algae wars.
do you mean wash the sand in tank water? Because dosnt washing the sand get rid alot of bacteria? My tank is going through a mini cycle too. I have lots of coral. Only thing I can think of was I took out live rock several times and vacumed up a lot of food that we were trying to coax a yellow clown goby to eat. I was misting the rock while it was out and trying to keep it wet. I also added some sand too because my sand was getting low from all the vacuuming with my turkey baster and pulling out sand when I do that.When you did the transfer did you wash the sand? If not, critters in it could have died. As they decay, they release ammonia. Also there could have been a little die off from the live rocks. In any case, the new tank is going through a cycle. Probably very short term until everything rebalances.
Like most things in seawater, amounts matter for the answer.Ive been reading on if ammonia will hurt coral and I have been reading conflicting articles. So what is the thought will ammonia hurt corals gsp in specific.
do you mean wash the sand in tank water? Because dosnt washing the sand get rid alot of bacteria? My tank is going through a mini cycle too. I have lots of coral. Only thing I can think of was I took out live rock several times and vacumed up a lot of food that we were trying to coax a yellow clown goby to eat. I was misting the rock while it was out and trying to keep it wet. I also added some sand too because my sand was getting low from all the vacuuming with my turkey baster and pulling out sand when I do that.
Do you remember somebody posting that they were dosing ammonium chloride? Maybe another forum but I could swear that you commented on the idea.FWIW, I've not seen much data on ammonia toxicity to corals. Some might even like it.
Thanks for answering me! I know you are the man that can help me. I googled amonia and corals and found that thread. I have posted a thread about copepods beacuse I thought that was what was bothering my corals but I am slow to catch on I guess. researching lights so much lately! But I have a bad situation and maybe a crash happening. I may leave a new post but recent one is titled something like copepods stressing coral.This is a several year old thread, but rinsing sand with seawater won't kill off much of the bacteria since they adhere to the sand surfaces. Rinsing sand with freshwater may well kill substantial numbers of the bacteria.
We've just started testing dosing ammonium chloride in a low nutrient reef system at my work. No "results" yet, but everything look well. Very diluted and low doses so far.Do you remember somebody posting that they were dosing ammonium chloride? Maybe another forum but I could swear that you commented on the idea.
Do you remember somebody posting that they were dosing ammonium chloride? Maybe another forum but I could swear that you commented on the idea.
I dose 3ml/100gallons. Has fed my system perfectly. Chaeto is growing like a weed and corals are looking great. Been dosing for about 6 months. Ammonium Chloride.It would not surprise me, but I do not specifically recall. If dosed slowly, it seems like a fine plan.