Leon Gorani
Active Member
I did post this same message in another thread, sorry, I wasn't sure if it the correct category so I decided to post it here as well.
I have noticed that my fish have been acting weird lately, and I tested my nitrate and phosphate, my nitrates were at 35 ppm, phosphate was at 1.76. Yes I know that is pretty high but I have not been overfeeding my fish, and I only have 3 fish in my 30 gallon tank. I have a ton of coral and they are all doing just fine. My 2 clownfish have not been swimming up at the top as usual and they look like they are breathing heavily but they aren't sitting on their side or anything. I don't know what to do because I keep up with my water changes and I thought everything was doing just fine. I had my court jester goby die yesterday out of no where, he was doing find the whole day then just died out of no where. I also have a yellow wrasse and he is doing fine, swimming everywhere.
I have a hang on the back CPR Aquatics refugium on my tank, it has a lot of old established matrix, and Marine Pure bio filter blocks in there. So I thought that would help take care of the nitrates. I do have a protein skimmer running too, but I unplug it overnight because it is too loud (tank is in my bedroom) So I need help with what I can do to hopefully lower nitrates and phosphates. Do I need to take out the old Matrix and replace it with new Matrix after a few months? Any tips on media I can use to lower phosphates or nitrates?
Also my clowns fins looked much more pointed than they do compared to just yesterday, I have long fin clowns and my larger ones fins look more pointed than usual. you might be able to see that from the second and fourth picture. My clownfish have also not been eating anything for the past two days, they usually eat just fine, but they stopped and I'm not sure what's going on with my tank. I literally just fed them frozen mysis and brine shrimp, and they barely ate anything, they didn't even seem interested.
I have ordered a new Red Sea tank and I was hoping to have that set up and hopefully I would have better luck with my nitrates and phosphates with the new tank, since it is larger and I will be using better filtration methods with the new tank. But I am waiting for it to be delivered, might take another month or so. I have a bunch of coral and I don't want them to die, but they all seem to be doing fine. I have heard chasing numbers isn't a good thing to do, since my coral seem to be just fine I figured the high nitrates wasn't a problem.
here are a few pics of my fish and the tank.
Thanks.
I have noticed that my fish have been acting weird lately, and I tested my nitrate and phosphate, my nitrates were at 35 ppm, phosphate was at 1.76. Yes I know that is pretty high but I have not been overfeeding my fish, and I only have 3 fish in my 30 gallon tank. I have a ton of coral and they are all doing just fine. My 2 clownfish have not been swimming up at the top as usual and they look like they are breathing heavily but they aren't sitting on their side or anything. I don't know what to do because I keep up with my water changes and I thought everything was doing just fine. I had my court jester goby die yesterday out of no where, he was doing find the whole day then just died out of no where. I also have a yellow wrasse and he is doing fine, swimming everywhere.
I have a hang on the back CPR Aquatics refugium on my tank, it has a lot of old established matrix, and Marine Pure bio filter blocks in there. So I thought that would help take care of the nitrates. I do have a protein skimmer running too, but I unplug it overnight because it is too loud (tank is in my bedroom) So I need help with what I can do to hopefully lower nitrates and phosphates. Do I need to take out the old Matrix and replace it with new Matrix after a few months? Any tips on media I can use to lower phosphates or nitrates?
Also my clowns fins looked much more pointed than they do compared to just yesterday, I have long fin clowns and my larger ones fins look more pointed than usual. you might be able to see that from the second and fourth picture. My clownfish have also not been eating anything for the past two days, they usually eat just fine, but they stopped and I'm not sure what's going on with my tank. I literally just fed them frozen mysis and brine shrimp, and they barely ate anything, they didn't even seem interested.
I have ordered a new Red Sea tank and I was hoping to have that set up and hopefully I would have better luck with my nitrates and phosphates with the new tank, since it is larger and I will be using better filtration methods with the new tank. But I am waiting for it to be delivered, might take another month or so. I have a bunch of coral and I don't want them to die, but they all seem to be doing fine. I have heard chasing numbers isn't a good thing to do, since my coral seem to be just fine I figured the high nitrates wasn't a problem.
here are a few pics of my fish and the tank.
Thanks.
