Hey fellow reefers.
Newish to the hobby and loving every minute of it. Even the challenges. Now I have a challenge I can’t seem to get a grasp on so I’ll explain in vivid detail.
I have a 75 gal salt water aquarium that has been up and running for about 9ish months. I did the cycling process and waited about 2 months before I put any fish in the tank. Levels were 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 10 nitrate. I started with 2 clowns and a powder blue tang (very small at the moment). And before anyone bites my head off, I have a 250gal Red Sea tank on order for November delivery, so I’m prepared. I then bought a melanurus wrasse about 3 weeks later. Unfortunately about a week later the wrasse was found dead. I took a sample to my LFS and there was a severe spike in ammonia and nitrite. I did about a 70% water change to combat the levels. Turns out my 5 year old severely over fed the tank. (Won’t happen again)
To this day all the fish in my tank are listed as, 2 clown, 1 powered blue tag, 1 red hawk fish, 1 royal gramma, 4 cardinals, 1 lawn mower, 1 mandarin dragonet (eating fine), a fairy wrasse, and a small Niger Trigger (also going to 250gal in November) with that I also have 2 bubble tip nems and about 6 corals and some hermit crabs and snails. They all seem to be doing great and eating well.
My setup is about 50 pounds of live rock and 60 pounds of live sand. I use the seachem tidal 75 as my hang on filter which did not seem to do the best job so I added a Penn Plac Cascade 1000 canister filter. My tank is now crystal clear. With those I have 2 Redsea LED 90 and a Red Sea Wave 45.
Now my only issue is I cant seem to shake this ammonia that won’t drop to zero. It’s steady at about .025 to .05 and never gets to undetectable amounts. Nitrite is 0 and Nitrate is about 10. It doesn’t seem to stress the fish but I want to make sure there isn’t something else I should be doing. I do about 20% water change a week and keep up with maintenance on my filters.
Please let me know what can be done.
Thanks for reading.
Attached are some picks of the tank as well as my light schedule. Any tips would be appreciated
Newish to the hobby and loving every minute of it. Even the challenges. Now I have a challenge I can’t seem to get a grasp on so I’ll explain in vivid detail.
I have a 75 gal salt water aquarium that has been up and running for about 9ish months. I did the cycling process and waited about 2 months before I put any fish in the tank. Levels were 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 10 nitrate. I started with 2 clowns and a powder blue tang (very small at the moment). And before anyone bites my head off, I have a 250gal Red Sea tank on order for November delivery, so I’m prepared. I then bought a melanurus wrasse about 3 weeks later. Unfortunately about a week later the wrasse was found dead. I took a sample to my LFS and there was a severe spike in ammonia and nitrite. I did about a 70% water change to combat the levels. Turns out my 5 year old severely over fed the tank. (Won’t happen again)
To this day all the fish in my tank are listed as, 2 clown, 1 powered blue tag, 1 red hawk fish, 1 royal gramma, 4 cardinals, 1 lawn mower, 1 mandarin dragonet (eating fine), a fairy wrasse, and a small Niger Trigger (also going to 250gal in November) with that I also have 2 bubble tip nems and about 6 corals and some hermit crabs and snails. They all seem to be doing great and eating well.
My setup is about 50 pounds of live rock and 60 pounds of live sand. I use the seachem tidal 75 as my hang on filter which did not seem to do the best job so I added a Penn Plac Cascade 1000 canister filter. My tank is now crystal clear. With those I have 2 Redsea LED 90 and a Red Sea Wave 45.
Now my only issue is I cant seem to shake this ammonia that won’t drop to zero. It’s steady at about .025 to .05 and never gets to undetectable amounts. Nitrite is 0 and Nitrate is about 10. It doesn’t seem to stress the fish but I want to make sure there isn’t something else I should be doing. I do about 20% water change a week and keep up with maintenance on my filters.
Please let me know what can be done.
Thanks for reading.
Attached are some picks of the tank as well as my light schedule. Any tips would be appreciated