Hey all just getting back into the hobby after about 15 year hiatus. I started up a 36 Bow front tank. Set it up 4 weeks ago. I purchased a Liquagen 5 Stage 75GPD RODI (pic attached). Running Well water through the system.
Tank has been very high in nitrates (around 20 ppm) with little budge on a daily basis. I added a bottles worth of API Quick Start nitrifying bacteria.
Could all be from the normal Nitrogen Cycle. But, my nephew has a 13 gallon freshwater tank and all his fish died from ich. So I went and helped him clean the tank and then we added 13 gallons of the RODI water. A week after letting it run he added 2 fish and they both died within 24 hours.
The reader on the rodi says its taking in 264 TDI and putting out 0 TDI. But I was curious and ran a nitrate test on some freshly made RODI water. Came back at about 8-10 ppm.
The non-live rock I put in has turned white and the purple colored live rock is losing its color.
Read that this could be too much light (total light exposure is about 9 hours of blue, 6 hours of white). So I'm leaning more towards nitrates being the reason.
Can anyone help identify what's up or what I should do? Thanks
Tank has been very high in nitrates (around 20 ppm) with little budge on a daily basis. I added a bottles worth of API Quick Start nitrifying bacteria.
Could all be from the normal Nitrogen Cycle. But, my nephew has a 13 gallon freshwater tank and all his fish died from ich. So I went and helped him clean the tank and then we added 13 gallons of the RODI water. A week after letting it run he added 2 fish and they both died within 24 hours.
The reader on the rodi says its taking in 264 TDI and putting out 0 TDI. But I was curious and ran a nitrate test on some freshly made RODI water. Came back at about 8-10 ppm.
The non-live rock I put in has turned white and the purple colored live rock is losing its color.
Read that this could be too much light (total light exposure is about 9 hours of blue, 6 hours of white). So I'm leaning more towards nitrates being the reason.
Can anyone help identify what's up or what I should do? Thanks