I shut down my tank moved everything to a another tank to deal with dinos restarted the tank with bottled bacteria (lots of it) tank seemed to read 0 ammonia and nitrite then nitrate creeped up to higher than ird like so I dosed nopox n within a day or two nitrate hit near zero me being impatient a month or so later added a 4inch wrasse on top of the 5 fish already in system.
Now ammonia has reappeared along with trace level of nitrite but my nitrate only goes down so I'm forced to dose nitrate to try and kill off the dinos, I have added so much bacteria to fight this it's ridiculous atleast 200 gbp or 260usd of different brands of live nitrifying bacteria the large wrasse has gone back to the lfs but I still have ammonia and nitrite slightly more nitrite than a few days ago but more ammonia also, meanwhile nitrate continues to go down with no carbon dosing no fuge etc so is it that the biomedia in the tank is mainly bacteria that transforms nitrate to nitrogen gas and not the type that filter ammonia?
I'm confused as this isnt anything I've experienced before is there something I'm missing maybe a experienced reefer can help me with?
I continue to dose microbactor7 daily along with vibrant 1 to 2 times a week.
Skimmer is off for 12hrs a day and UV runs all but 5 hours to allow for bacteria to settle when dosed.
Now ammonia has reappeared along with trace level of nitrite but my nitrate only goes down so I'm forced to dose nitrate to try and kill off the dinos, I have added so much bacteria to fight this it's ridiculous atleast 200 gbp or 260usd of different brands of live nitrifying bacteria the large wrasse has gone back to the lfs but I still have ammonia and nitrite slightly more nitrite than a few days ago but more ammonia also, meanwhile nitrate continues to go down with no carbon dosing no fuge etc so is it that the biomedia in the tank is mainly bacteria that transforms nitrate to nitrogen gas and not the type that filter ammonia?
I'm confused as this isnt anything I've experienced before is there something I'm missing maybe a experienced reefer can help me with?
I continue to dose microbactor7 daily along with vibrant 1 to 2 times a week.
Skimmer is off for 12hrs a day and UV runs all but 5 hours to allow for bacteria to settle when dosed.