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Okay so I have a 29 gallon bio cube with live sand and 25lbs live rock with nice coralline build up that has been up and running since early June, everything has been great in it for the most part (other than the parasite outbreak that got brought home from lfs)... I ran my water tests 2 days ago because my long tentacle anemone kept deflating and balling up, sure enough there was a slight increase of ammonia, everything else was great, when I woke up this am my leather coral, lta, Duncan and coco worm all look "sad" so I ran more tests and everything looks normal except my nitrates which are reading at 5.0 ppm and my high range ph which is reading between 8.0 and 8.2 I added eight.four to help with the ph and my coco worm is back out of his tube! The only other corals in my tank that don't seem bothered is my green riccordea mushroom, he is as big and beautiful as ever today and my green star polyps!
As for the tank stock, I have my clean up crew which consists of a skunk shrimp, a fire shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp, a porcelain crab, an emerald crab, some nassarius snails, some cerith snails, a few ninja stars, some blue leg hermits, a couple red hermits, there's a million bristle worms that hitch hiked in and a banded serpent star! And obviously the corals and anemone mentioned above!
There is also 1 chromis as a guinea pig to test if the parasite is gone yet and we are so far so good on him!
I'm just curious as to the levels in which my tank should not go above or below?!
As for the tank stock, I have my clean up crew which consists of a skunk shrimp, a fire shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp, a porcelain crab, an emerald crab, some nassarius snails, some cerith snails, a few ninja stars, some blue leg hermits, a couple red hermits, there's a million bristle worms that hitch hiked in and a banded serpent star! And obviously the corals and anemone mentioned above!
There is also 1 chromis as a guinea pig to test if the parasite is gone yet and we are so far so good on him!
I'm just curious as to the levels in which my tank should not go above or below?!