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He wanted a spoon. They were all dirty. I own everything in the apartment. He gets upset. He lifts up full 10 gallon freshwater aquarium. stumbles into my bedroom. Throws aquarium in the middle of the room. Aquarium bottom disappears. Water everywhere. Kills 5 of my fish. I was able to save the other 4. And then he and I spend the next 8 hours pulling up carpet and drying out the room.
The apartment is fine. all damage cleaned up, and he paid for and purchased all broken goods. I also documented the event in case I have to take him to court over the potential damage to the apartment.
I was forced to move my saltwater tank (25 gallons) from my room to accommodate the removal of carpet and the drying process. I had just bought new salt water the day before so I had no empty buckets and was rushing to get the room clear as fast as possible to soak up the water. I just began my cycle a week before this happened. I was forced to poor all of the water that was in my tank during that first week of cycling down the bathtub drain.
Current situation. I replaced the water in the saltwater tank with new RODI salt water. before the incident I had seen my ammonia spike to about 2 ppm, and I had diatoms formed across all of my live rock and sand. I had also started to see nitrite in my tests as well as nitrate. QUESTION #1::: is it normal to see a spike in both nitrite and nitrate at the same time when cycling? if not what does this mean?
After the new water was introduced I still was reading ammonia but it was falling from its peak of 2 ppm to its current .25 ppm. (this drop occurred gradually, however my first test immediately after we got the room put back together read 1 ppm of ammonia) I continued to see the presents of diatoms and even some small splotches of green algae on my live rock. I used a shrimp to cycle my aquarium prior to this event and had removed the shrimp 2 days before he threw my ten gallon tank on the floor.
QUESTION #2:::: Do I need to put a piece of shrimp back into my tank to produce another ammonia spike?
Currently my test are reading 5 ppm of nitrite, and 80 ppm of nitrate, my ammonia is at .25 ppm.
QUESTION #3::::: What do I do from here? do I need to provide ammonia for my diatoms to continue their life cycle? Why isn't my Nitrite falling as my nitrate rises?
All of my test are done on API test tube kits and cross referenced with clean tank samples labeled from the previous day that are tested again along side the new samples for color comparison and greater accuracy.
Tank is 25 gallons with 25 lbs of live rock.
Thank you and happy reefing.
The apartment is fine. all damage cleaned up, and he paid for and purchased all broken goods. I also documented the event in case I have to take him to court over the potential damage to the apartment.
I was forced to move my saltwater tank (25 gallons) from my room to accommodate the removal of carpet and the drying process. I had just bought new salt water the day before so I had no empty buckets and was rushing to get the room clear as fast as possible to soak up the water. I just began my cycle a week before this happened. I was forced to poor all of the water that was in my tank during that first week of cycling down the bathtub drain.
Current situation. I replaced the water in the saltwater tank with new RODI salt water. before the incident I had seen my ammonia spike to about 2 ppm, and I had diatoms formed across all of my live rock and sand. I had also started to see nitrite in my tests as well as nitrate. QUESTION #1::: is it normal to see a spike in both nitrite and nitrate at the same time when cycling? if not what does this mean?
After the new water was introduced I still was reading ammonia but it was falling from its peak of 2 ppm to its current .25 ppm. (this drop occurred gradually, however my first test immediately after we got the room put back together read 1 ppm of ammonia) I continued to see the presents of diatoms and even some small splotches of green algae on my live rock. I used a shrimp to cycle my aquarium prior to this event and had removed the shrimp 2 days before he threw my ten gallon tank on the floor.
QUESTION #2:::: Do I need to put a piece of shrimp back into my tank to produce another ammonia spike?
Currently my test are reading 5 ppm of nitrite, and 80 ppm of nitrate, my ammonia is at .25 ppm.
QUESTION #3::::: What do I do from here? do I need to provide ammonia for my diatoms to continue their life cycle? Why isn't my Nitrite falling as my nitrate rises?
All of my test are done on API test tube kits and cross referenced with clean tank samples labeled from the previous day that are tested again along side the new samples for color comparison and greater accuracy.
Tank is 25 gallons with 25 lbs of live rock.
Thank you and happy reefing.