Hi Everyone,
Long time lurker on this forum and recently got into the hobby (5 weeks marine, but 2 years freshwater).
I set up my Red Sea Nano Max 75L 5 weeks ago with the included protein skimmer, Red Sea live sand, a couple of dry rocks, Marine Pure filter media spheres, and RODI water with Red Sea coral pro salt. My light runs 10 hours with blue at 40% and white at 12%. I’m doing a fish less cycle.
I started off with the Red Sea Reef Mature starter kit, but after reading a different thread where it said that kit’s meant to be used with live rock I bought Fritz turbo start. I then introduced Dr Tim’s as it came highly recommended, and Aquavitro seed (my thought process was this was different bacteria so should fill in the gaps where the others couldn’t). I have been dosing Dr Tims ammonium chloride and following the instructions.
Initially the ammonia in my tank was going down, I was getting readings of 0 ppm after 2 days, and my nitrites would be <= 0.5ppm also with my Red Sea Marine Care test kit picking up nitrates. This was week 3 and 4. Now, however, in week 5 after dosing ammonia after 3 days the ammonia in my tank is still sitting around 2 ppm (the highest reading on the Red Sea marine test kit). The water is also cloudy.
My question is: if when reading what I have done so far, what have I done wrong? If so, it likely my ammonia isn’t going down because I’ve killed the bacteria?
If anyone encountered a similar problem, or knows what I have done wrong, please let me know. I can provide more info or pics if anyone needs. If anyone has posted this before already please comment the link.
Thanks anyone/everyone
Long time lurker on this forum and recently got into the hobby (5 weeks marine, but 2 years freshwater).
I set up my Red Sea Nano Max 75L 5 weeks ago with the included protein skimmer, Red Sea live sand, a couple of dry rocks, Marine Pure filter media spheres, and RODI water with Red Sea coral pro salt. My light runs 10 hours with blue at 40% and white at 12%. I’m doing a fish less cycle.
I started off with the Red Sea Reef Mature starter kit, but after reading a different thread where it said that kit’s meant to be used with live rock I bought Fritz turbo start. I then introduced Dr Tim’s as it came highly recommended, and Aquavitro seed (my thought process was this was different bacteria so should fill in the gaps where the others couldn’t). I have been dosing Dr Tims ammonium chloride and following the instructions.
Initially the ammonia in my tank was going down, I was getting readings of 0 ppm after 2 days, and my nitrites would be <= 0.5ppm also with my Red Sea Marine Care test kit picking up nitrates. This was week 3 and 4. Now, however, in week 5 after dosing ammonia after 3 days the ammonia in my tank is still sitting around 2 ppm (the highest reading on the Red Sea marine test kit). The water is also cloudy.
My question is: if when reading what I have done so far, what have I done wrong? If so, it likely my ammonia isn’t going down because I’ve killed the bacteria?
If anyone encountered a similar problem, or knows what I have done wrong, please let me know. I can provide more info or pics if anyone needs. If anyone has posted this before already please comment the link.
Thanks anyone/everyone