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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arking_mark" data-source="post: 8132201" data-attributes="member: 65637">Very curious to hear opinions, as I can't quite explain what happened.1. 34gal AIO Mature 7+ year old mixed reef system2. Coming off 72 day fallow3. 9 anemones and mostly soft corals with occasional ghost feeding of pellets 4. During fallow added Jack-o-lantern, kung poa, Walt Disney, some zoas, and some shrooms.4. Moved the tank about 6 feet so new build could get in place.5. About 4 weeks after move started salt change from IO Reef to Neomarine as I'm transitioning to Triton. Only changing about 1 gal a day with AWC.6. Parameters are Salinity 1.025, Alk 9-10, Calcium 430ish, Ph 8.1-8.2...7. Added a Candy Basslet Sunday 10/25 and threw on my Seneye just because I wasn't using it on my QT or observation tank.8. Woke up to a ammonia spike of .081.9. Threw in Prime and Dr. Tims One and Only10. Proceeded to then test ammonia with Red Sea and Seachem test kits. Red Sea showed 0 total ammonia. Seachem showed no free Ammonia and .05 total ammonia.11. I searched the tank and found what maybe a dead turbo...shell is empty but stinks. I removed it.12. Seneye continues to show rising ammonia...spiking from the snail removal up to .18113. Red Sea and Seachem continue to show 0 ammonia.14. Ammonia slowly coming down in tank15. Basslet and corals showed no signs of stress[ATTACH=full]1850189[/ATTACH]I suspect that the tank's bacteria were much depleted due to fallow.I don't think the Basslet was the cause of the spike. Just a coincidence with a snail death. However, it does add to the ammonia.I can't explain the different test kit discrepancies...which is most frustrating. Was the Seneye glitching?Could one snail cause this in a mature tank?Did the Seneye save my tank with my Prime and Dr Tims rescue?Could the spike be from the Basslet?Other thoughts?</blockquote>

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