Help - water spike

[NewbieC123]

Everything spiked recently.

My YWG disappeared and my star fish is falling apart. These have been the tests recently. I have a Red sea max 130D 34 gallon and did a 10 gallon water change and dosed fritz 1 oz on Friday per LFS advise. Tank is about a month old.

 

[TX_REEF]

Are you sure your cycle was complete? If it is, ammonia should be reading zero at basically all times. It’s possible your cycle didn’t complete in a month, mine took 6 weeks for example.

 

[musel101]

My opinion is the tank is still too new for any livestock there’s probably a big algae bloom. There’s a microscopic war going on for turf in your tank, toxic to fish and invertebrates. I’d wait before you add any livestock.

 

[KrisReef]

The ammonia looks the same in all of these tests, the nitrate looks like it went down after the water change, and at around 10ppm it is not a problem. The pH looks better than my reef tank used to look when it was young and I was growing corals back then. So the problem you are having isn't your parameters, your starfish (Patrick?) is dying and should be frozen inside a baggy (based only upon your discription) and the goby either jumped (do you have a lid) or it buried itself hiding from the stress and commotion going on around the tank.

Post a picture of the tank, sorry this is happening but these things happen, a lot.

 

[NewbieC123]

The ammonia looks the same in all of these tests, the nitrate looks like it went down after the water change, and at around 10ppm it is not a problem. The pH looks better than my reef tank used to look when it was young and I was growing corals back then. So the problem you are having isn't your parameters, your starfish (Patrick?) is dying and should be frozen inside a baggy (based only upon your discription) and the goby either jumped (do you have a lid) or it buried itself hiding from the stress and commotion going on around the tank.

Post a picture of the tank, sorry this is happening but these things happen, a lot.

So what should I do? Turn off the light? I noticed diatoms showed up today as well.

 

[NewbieC123]

I also have 2 clowns and 2 damsels in it. I know I jumped the gun.

 

[musel101]

This cycle does take some time every tank is different

 

[KrisReef]

So what should I do? Turn off the light? I noticed diatoms showed up today as well.

Calm down, and let it ride. The coral needs light and is not impacted much by ammonia, it actually will uptake that. It also wants phosphate, so feed the fish 1-3 flakes 2 times a day, aka feed very lightly and the fish will feed the coral but hopefully not pollute the tank water in excess.

Everyone jumps the gun, once. Relax, use the search feature in the top right corner and find information by reading entire threads. You will find people who are in a hurry often step on themselves and do a lot of harm. You will find people have different view points on how to fix
well,

Everything. Some of the information is incorrect, some is completely wrong, and the good stuff mostly I wrote all of that, or at least copied it from someone trust worthy on here. (That was mostly for intertainment, but I think you can gather the point that you have to be careful what information is posted on line.

Check out the build threads for ideas on improvements, once you have been reading the site for a couple of weeks your current issue will be in the rearview mirror and something new will be happening, hopefully something good.