Hello. I’m sure I’m kinda new to this compare to some of you. I live near Woodbury commons and I would love to get in touch with some local hobbits to teach me and answer any future questions. About 3 months ago I upgraded my 3yo 55gal corner tank with canister filter ( mainly fish with 2 anemones) to 125g. I moved all my rocks and water to the new setup. I used new sand and about 60lb of new dry rock. I did that because I couldn’t keep the old tank running at the same time while my new one was cycling. So far so good all my live stock looks good and happy and I added 2 zoa frags, one Rose BTA, 1 hammer, 1 toadstool and one green polyp. It seems that even though I used my old water and rock my tank is going though cycling because, at least that’s how it looks to me , is going through the ugly brown phase.
I’m struggling with high nitrates.The Hanna checker maxes out at 75 so I’m dosing Red Sea NO3O4-x. For nitrate export I have a skimmer and I have chaeto in the sump the fist golf size batch disintegrated so I got new volleyball size. I’m running the Kessil fuge light at grow setting at medium intensity for about 8 hours at night and 2 hours in the day. How can I control the nitrates. I feed 9 fish once a day 2 cubes of frozen brine and 1 cube of algae. I know that the dosing will lower the nitrates but how can I keep the nitrates down? What am I doing wrong?
Temp 77.6
Ammonia. 0
Nitrites. 0
Salinity 1.025
Alk. 11 dkh
Cal. 396
Phos. .8
PH. 8
Thank you for your help
I’m struggling with high nitrates.The Hanna checker maxes out at 75 so I’m dosing Red Sea NO3O4-x. For nitrate export I have a skimmer and I have chaeto in the sump the fist golf size batch disintegrated so I got new volleyball size. I’m running the Kessil fuge light at grow setting at medium intensity for about 8 hours at night and 2 hours in the day. How can I control the nitrates. I feed 9 fish once a day 2 cubes of frozen brine and 1 cube of algae. I know that the dosing will lower the nitrates but how can I keep the nitrates down? What am I doing wrong?
Temp 77.6
Ammonia. 0
Nitrites. 0
Salinity 1.025
Alk. 11 dkh
Cal. 396
Phos. .8
PH. 8
Thank you for your help