ammonia at steady ppm

xdannyxrocksx

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I posted on the reef discussion section a couple weeks ago, figured I would give it a shot here for more answered/ advice. I moved my 40 breeder mixed reef aquarium and roughly about 3 weeks later I started to see zoas closing, then sps slowly receding, then lps dying. I didnt think much about the zoas closing but when my sps started to recede I was concerend. Tested and ammonia was hight everything else was where it needed to be. I also had snails start to die and a couple of shrimp. I did replace the sand when I moved the tank. Now my ammonia has gone from roughly .50 ppm to about 1ppm, since then all my livestock was moved to local reefers tanks and I only have LR, two clowns, and my damsel in my aquarium. Actually my pistol shrimp and purple lobster are also still in teh systems for i could not find housing for them and they are doing great. I have been doing 15 gallon water changes roughly every other day and not a single water change seems to affect the ammonia. The R/O D/I water I am getting comes from my workplace, a LFS, and I have tested the water with our TDS meter and I am gettin ga reading of 0. Is my tank hitting the cycle process all over again?
 
Sounds like you had some die off during the move or shortly after causing a big ammonia spike, which then killed more things causing the spike to last longer. give it some more time just like a normal cycle and then go back to town with it.
 
After two years of set up its hard to wait..i want to test like every second knowing its not going to change. Should I keep running my skimmer? Bump up water changes or keep it at a steady 15g WC?
 
I'd keep up with the water changes and leave the skimmer running, and consider dosing some Amquel or Prime.
 
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