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i have a 5 week old tank that I cycled with Red Sea Reef mature and went according to plan. By the end I was at 0 Ammoni 0 Nitrite and 40 Nitrate. Did a large water change and mistakenly syphoned and cleaned sand bed (started with dry sand) and added my first 2 fish. Ammonia came up to 0.2 and nitrate 0.2 by midnight. Added seachem stability and by morning ammonia was gone and nitrate started to slowly creep up to 1ppm.
Long story short. Did a 30% waterchenge and added Dr Tim’s one and only and have been stuck at 0 ammonia and 0.1-0.2 nitrite.
Reading lots and heard about phosphate block and did a test with my Hanna phosphorus ULR and got 1ppb so 0.003 phosphate. Could this be my issue? Do I follow procedures such as Fritz PH Lower or Phosphous supplement to get a slight rise and break through block?
I’ve been dosing nopox and the only deviations from Red Sea plan were CaribSea life rock (seeded man made dry rock)
Didn’t add fish till 10 days after instructions to wait for Nitrite to 0 and I added chaeto to my fuge and added large population of copepods.
What do I do next?
Fish are happy inverts are working on light coating of diatom on rock and sand but I haven’t been feeding the fish for the last 4-5 days to drop nitrite to 0.
Thank you!!
Long story short. Did a 30% waterchenge and added Dr Tim’s one and only and have been stuck at 0 ammonia and 0.1-0.2 nitrite.
Reading lots and heard about phosphate block and did a test with my Hanna phosphorus ULR and got 1ppb so 0.003 phosphate. Could this be my issue? Do I follow procedures such as Fritz PH Lower or Phosphous supplement to get a slight rise and break through block?
I’ve been dosing nopox and the only deviations from Red Sea plan were CaribSea life rock (seeded man made dry rock)
Didn’t add fish till 10 days after instructions to wait for Nitrite to 0 and I added chaeto to my fuge and added large population of copepods.
What do I do next?
Fish are happy inverts are working on light coating of diatom on rock and sand but I haven’t been feeding the fish for the last 4-5 days to drop nitrite to 0.
Thank you!!
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