I can honesty say I’m hate this tank at the moment.. I have been having issues with a couple of things.
1- can’t get my Ca past 370ppm.
2- can’t get a nutrient level up. Phosphate is at 0 and nitrate is at
.25
I over feed 3 times a day with frozen food, flake, pellets, reef roids, roe eggs, etc. My current situation is I had turned my skimmer off for over a week in hopes that my nutrients level would come up. Which it did go from phosphate being at zero then moving to .01 and my nitrates going from zero to .25
But I decided to turn it on for a little bit earlier today just because I thought it would be good for some more water agitation. When the cup filled up a little bit with some skim I dumped it back into the tank because I couldn’t afford to lose those nutrients in the tank. Being that my torchs seem to be on their death beds because of no nutrients.. well after I dumped it back in I went over to my parents house for dinner. Came back 3 hours or so later to a dead yellow tang, fire fish, and a missing clown which I’m assuming is dead some where in the tank as well. So I’m just really looking for some advice here how to rectify some stuff. How come my CA won’t budge. I’m just burning though 2 part CA portion with nothing happening.. it doesn’t seem to be participating out as I’m not seeing any snow in the tank.. is there a buffer I should use to get the CA up then go back to 2 part? As for nutrients what do you guys think? How can I boost them up in a decent time period. I can only waste so much food.. But I thought the tank was stocked with fish well enough for the size to be able to have some nutrients.. Anyway here are my current levels and my fish stock list (before the deaths that just happened tonight.. )
- PH - 7.9- 8.2
- Alk- 8.5 DHK (Hanna tester)
- CA- 370ppm (Salafert test kit)
- Mag- 1470ppm (salafert test kit)
- Salinity- 1.026
- Temp- 78-79
- Amonia and Nitrite- 0 (salafert)
Fish list
-2 clowns
- yellow tang
- melanurus wrasse
- Blue spot jaw fish
- Lubbock wrasse
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Trying to keep my torches alive.. My acan and zoas are looking great.. Incase you haven’t read my thread my tank finished cycling around Halloween. Cycled with dry rock which I’m starting to regret doing..
1- can’t get my Ca past 370ppm.
2- can’t get a nutrient level up. Phosphate is at 0 and nitrate is at
.25
I over feed 3 times a day with frozen food, flake, pellets, reef roids, roe eggs, etc. My current situation is I had turned my skimmer off for over a week in hopes that my nutrients level would come up. Which it did go from phosphate being at zero then moving to .01 and my nitrates going from zero to .25
But I decided to turn it on for a little bit earlier today just because I thought it would be good for some more water agitation. When the cup filled up a little bit with some skim I dumped it back into the tank because I couldn’t afford to lose those nutrients in the tank. Being that my torchs seem to be on their death beds because of no nutrients.. well after I dumped it back in I went over to my parents house for dinner. Came back 3 hours or so later to a dead yellow tang, fire fish, and a missing clown which I’m assuming is dead some where in the tank as well. So I’m just really looking for some advice here how to rectify some stuff. How come my CA won’t budge. I’m just burning though 2 part CA portion with nothing happening.. it doesn’t seem to be participating out as I’m not seeing any snow in the tank.. is there a buffer I should use to get the CA up then go back to 2 part? As for nutrients what do you guys think? How can I boost them up in a decent time period. I can only waste so much food.. But I thought the tank was stocked with fish well enough for the size to be able to have some nutrients.. Anyway here are my current levels and my fish stock list (before the deaths that just happened tonight.. )
- PH - 7.9- 8.2
- Alk- 8.5 DHK (Hanna tester)
- CA- 370ppm (Salafert test kit)
- Mag- 1470ppm (salafert test kit)
- Salinity- 1.026
- Temp- 78-79
- Amonia and Nitrite- 0 (salafert)
Fish list
-2 clowns
- yellow tang
- melanurus wrasse
- Blue spot jaw fish
- Lubbock wrasse
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Trying to keep my torches alive.. My acan and zoas are looking great.. Incase you haven’t read my thread my tank finished cycling around Halloween. Cycled with dry rock which I’m starting to regret doing..