Can someone please tell me if there is anything wrong with these parameters

[rick_reefer]

could someone please tell me if there is something wrong here, I’m 7 months in and always have a 0 on both ammonia and nitrite and nitrate is usually a lot lower. What could be the issue here and what should I do to rectify it, if anything?

Ammonia - <0.15 ppm

Nitrite - 0.25ppm

Nitrate - 25ppm

Phosphate - 0.03 ppm

dKH - 8.6 ppm

Calcium - 450ppm

Magnesium - 1380ppm

pH - 7.7

Salinity - 1.026

Iodine - 0.03ppm

 

[fishguy242]

hi welcome to the reef going to love it here!!
first thing is ,that is area you want nitrate ,never want to bottom out.
little high on mag ,i run same alk 9,cal 450,mag 1250 ,not a big deal
i see ph low ,poss try to add fresh air into system with alk and cal at them levels 8.1-8.3 target
what size tank,under 75 gal ,i would run salinity 1.024 ,room for error in evap,that's just my thoughts many more will come ,with their own opinions..happy reefing

 

[rick_reefer]

hi welcome to the reef going to love it here!!
first thing is ,that is area you want nitrate ,never want to bottom out.
little high on mag ,i run same alk 9,cal 450,mag 1250 ,not a big deal
i see ph low ,poss try to add fresh air into system with alk and cal at them levels 8.1-8.3 target
what size tank,under 75 gal ,i would run salinity 1.024 ,room for error in evap,that's just my thoughts many more will come ,with their own opinions..happy reefing

100 gallon tank with the following;

2 x Ocellaris Clowns
3 x Damsels
1 x Cleaner Wrasse
1 x Melanarus Wrasse
1 x Red Firefish
1 x Coral Beauty
And a large CuC including cleaner shrimp, turbos, red legged hermits and konchs.
Have 2 different torches, finger leather, mushroom, hammer, 8 different zoa colonies and gsp.
Have a lot of live rock and sand within the tank.

Would you suggest do a water change to try and reduce the Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate?

 

[hds4216]

Do you have an actual cleaner wrasse? Labroides dimidiatus?

 

[Cryptocaryon]

Count your fish. Looks like somthings died in there

 

[rick_reefer]

Do you have an actual cleaner wrasse? Labroides dimidiatus?

Yes

 

[rick_reefer]

Count your fish. Looks like somthings died in there

Fish looks fine, but have white patches and a hole in my leather, please see picture attached

 

[Cryptocaryon]

Fish looks fine, but have white patches and a hole in my leather, please see picture attached

That'll be a shrimp. All clean up crew account for? Dead snail?

 

[Cryptocaryon]

That'll be a shrimp. All clean up crew account for? Dead snail?

Is your ph always sitting at 7.7? Has it dropped

 

[rick_reefer]

Is your ph always sitting at 7.7? Has it dropped

Always sits at 7.7, I do use buffer for the kh when that drops.

 

[rick_reefer]

That'll be a shrimp. All clean up crew account for? Dead snail?

You mean the shrimp has caused that to the leather? Will it ever return to normal?

 

[Cryptocaryon]

If nothing has died reduce feeding. Water change to reduce your numbers

 

[Cryptocaryon]

You mean the shrimp has caused that to the leather? Will it ever return to normal?

If the shrimp or fish doing it doesn't leave it alone yes, it'll be like a scab that keeps getting picked

 

[Cryptocaryon]

If the shrimp or fish doing it doesn't leave it alone yes, it'll be like a scab that keeps getting picked

I would say watch your shrimp and coral beauty as being the strongest contenders

 

[rick_reefer]

I would say watch your shrimp and coral beauty as being the strongest contenders

I’ll be sure to be watching it like a hawk, so you think it will get better? It couldn’t be an infection of some sort could it? This was last night without lights

 

[Cryptocaryon]

I’ll be sure to be watching it like a hawk, so you think it will get better? It couldn’t be an infection of some sort could it? This was last night without lights

Leathers are pretty good at regeneration given adequate water conditions so as long as it isn't some type of bacterial infection (which i doubt) it should be fine.

 

[fishguy242]

I’ll be sure to be watching it like a hawk, so you think it will get better? It couldn’t be an infection of some sort could it? This was last night without lights

hi that is a devils hand ,he is dropping fingers ,looks normal to me try to bring in out side air through skimmer air intake to bring up phhave pics of tank and filtration system?

 

[rick_reefer]

This is the tank at the moment, added a Favia, Zoa colony and an elegance coral today. It is a devils and I would have no idea on how to bring in air from outside, would it be easier to get an ozone generator? Do you think it will regenerate?

 

[rick_reefer]

This is the sump setup.

 

[fishguy242]

hi ,1st i think you should make this your build thread
tank looks great!! can you at very least run an extention on air intake on skimmer to a higher level just above tank,ideal would be outside,30 yrs in ..never messed w ozone