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It has been very cloudy a green looking since yesterday morning and my ammonia and nitrate levels are high. What should I do?
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Seachem Prime if you have high ammonia or any other bacteria in a bottle (biospera etc) Petco/Petspmart carries it if you can't get to a LFS. Not sure what's going on here though, but your fish are in danger if ammonia is elevated, esp above 2 ppm.
How old is your tank? Did you do anything new to it?
Looks like die off from newly added rock from this picture
What he said. Also, WELCOME TO R2R Ryan!After the bacteria, (biospira or FritzZyme Turbostart) Add activated carbon to reduce the color pigments. What filtration are you using?
After the bacteria, (biospira or FritzZyme Turbostart) Add activated carbon to reduce the color pigments. What filtration are you using?
The filter is fine, you just don't have enough bacteria to export the fish's waste from ammonia to nitrate. The rule of thumb when adding fish to a newly, completely cycled system is to add one fish every 7 days. that way you bacteria have enough time to populate and handle the additional bioload.
Both bacteria and good carbon should be taken into account here. Is that a yellow tang? Those guys can add a lot of work to your bio filtration
I’m not gonna bag you for tank size I’m just adding to what @tsav87 is saying that a tang requires a strong established bio filtration to take on that kind of bio load without skipping a beat and in this case it may be skipping a few beats but that’s a lot of water and you have time just do little adjustments not to throw off the bio filter anymoreYes that is a yellow tang he will be put in a bigger tank though when he gets to big for this tank.
thats what I said but he said it’s been curing for 6 weeks so realistically you wouldn’t add fish till you know your rock and sand are cured and cycled so you wouldn’t get a second round of die off without adding anymore substrateI don't think 3 fish would cause that. I think the rock has some major die off going on. I would do a 50% water asap. Give it a few days see if it gets better and change another 50%. The tank is in a cycle for sure and you need to get the ammonia down if you don't want them to die.