This is my 1st marine aquarium in 15 years (19 gallon Biocube) & I was so excited. Looks like a LOT has changed over the years b/ca we knew about buying bottled bac, but didn't know you could buy bottled ammonia & cycle without a fish. Long story short we've been cycling with a skunk clown & it seemed to be going really well. Ammonia finally spiked & went down to 0, Nitrites spiked, Nitrates growing slowly & started to see some spots of brown algae so we got a couple of tiny Hawaiian hermits. Then all of the sudden the Nitrites went to 5ppm (maybe higher, that's as high as my test shows) so we started doing daily water changes, but it wasn't coming down. Clown seemed strong, eating & swimming very well. Well, we missed a day of water changes & tho it didn't die the next day, it was gone the next (today.)
*So now I'm wondering what to do now. How do I bring the nitrites down & will high nitrites kill my hermit crabs? I was getting ready to get snails to control the algae, but maybe that's a bad idea?? Will not having a fish in the tank stop the tank's cycling?
Thx!!
*So now I'm wondering what to do now. How do I bring the nitrites down & will high nitrites kill my hermit crabs? I was getting ready to get snails to control the algae, but maybe that's a bad idea?? Will not having a fish in the tank stop the tank's cycling?
Thx!!