new to the forums and hobby

[anttyler453]

hi my name is anthony iv been in the hobby around a year now a few months ago i upgraded my 55 to a 120 recently i added corals to the tank zoas to be specific they have been there around a month and havent opened but are alive i was useing a api test kit it said everything was ok i got a red sea test kit yesterday
my tank
ammonia is .2 to .4
nitrites is .0
nitrates is 20 to 30
alk is 9 dkh
salt is 1.022

 

[JEREMY82]

Welcome to reef2reef !!looks to me as if nitrates are a bit high.partial water change should help .do you use coral dips when introduce new corals to tank?your salinity is a bit on the lower end also I'm not sure if this would affect em from opening up.my zoa tank is 1.025 to 26 most time

 

[kschweer]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[anttyler453]

im slowing raising the salt and the nitrates im doseing a red sea nitrate reducer

 

[JEREMY82]

How long has tank been running you think?it is possible if you did a tank transfer u may have set off a cycle again..do you use tap water treated or rodi water? For nitrates IME water changes was the best for me

 

[anttyler453]

i use treaded tap water what ime water

 

[JEREMY82]

IME (in my experience )

 

[anttyler453]

Jeremy I had a small clown fish die actually at one point and I had to move the rocks around i have nothing that stirs up the sand so I think it's possible when I started doing so it may have made it and I wasent able to find the clown so I think that maybe all part of my problem

 

[JEREMY82]

I've used this stuff called stability when I thought my tank was going through a mini cycle from me messing around with stuff ,I have a 75 gallon mixed reef and basically its got lot of stuff in it ,I used the stability and stuff seemed to do ok with it

 

[anttyler453]

Where can I get that stuff

 

[JEREMY82]

It's a long road keeping saltwater tanks.there's going to be smooth times and bad parts ,patience and learning as much as u can helps this become more smooth .

 

[anttyler453]

O oooo lmaooo sry i thought there was a dosing thing called that

 

[JEREMY82]

I got it at petsmart but Google it should help u out . I order lots of stuff off net

 

[JEREMY82]

Stability is a dose

 

[anttyler453]

O i use amazon for everything I just found it

 

[JEREMY82]

It worked good for me but every system is different but from what u said and your numbers it may help out

 

[anttyler453]

I really hope so thanks for the help

 

[JEREMY82]

No problem ,glad you came to reef2reef,the people are friendly and always help out, so don't be afraid to ask for help, starting new threads isn't that bad,you just need to mess around on here a bit to get used to it

 

[anttyler453]

thanks i tried using facebook but not many ppl are looking to help vs troll so happy i joined here

 

[dbl]

Welcome to R2R and thanks for joining.