PaulDavies72
New Member
Hello, my name is Paul and I am new to R2R.
My aquarium is a Red Sea Max 130, I have removed the mechanical filter medium, the carbon, and the ceramics (as told these were just a nitrate trap. I have a cooler attached, and have just bought a Seneye Reef monitoring system.
I have recently had and aquarium crash, all fish lost due to elevated ammonia, nitrite and nitrate.
I think there were a number of reasons for the crash; namely I stopped testing (thought that once an aquarium was up and running it would look after itself, once cycled and livestock added slowly), 1 to many fish (tipped the bio-load over the edge).
Anyway I have completely stripped my aquarium and thoroughly cleaned everything. I kept all my live rock, and my surviving soft corals, snail and Urchin in the old water until they were ready to go back in.
I am now 1 week into re-cycling my aquarium, using my live rock, snail and urchin for the cycling.
So far so good.
My aquarium is a Red Sea Max 130, I have removed the mechanical filter medium, the carbon, and the ceramics (as told these were just a nitrate trap. I have a cooler attached, and have just bought a Seneye Reef monitoring system.
I have recently had and aquarium crash, all fish lost due to elevated ammonia, nitrite and nitrate.
I think there were a number of reasons for the crash; namely I stopped testing (thought that once an aquarium was up and running it would look after itself, once cycled and livestock added slowly), 1 to many fish (tipped the bio-load over the edge).
Anyway I have completely stripped my aquarium and thoroughly cleaned everything. I kept all my live rock, and my surviving soft corals, snail and Urchin in the old water until they were ready to go back in.
I am now 1 week into re-cycling my aquarium, using my live rock, snail and urchin for the cycling.
So far so good.
