Bad water parameters!

[Robert Boukari]

32 LED CORALIFE BIOCUBE

My tank got up 95 degrees the other day, so I've gone through the process of taking everything out that was dead and cleaning rocks and changing filters. The ammonia: 1.0 ppm, nitrite 1.0 ppm, nitrate 10.0 ppm. What can I do to fix this? I've already done a 20 gallon water change and have no more RO/DI water.

 

[E572]

32 LED CORALIFE BIOCUBE

My tank got up 95 degrees the other day, so I've gone through the process of taking everything out that was dead and cleaning rocks and changing filters. The ammonia: 1.0 ppm, nitrite 1.0 ppm, nitrate 10.0 ppm. What can I do to fix this? I've already done a 20 gallon water change and have no more RO/DI water.

If you are showing ammonia and nitrite, that means beneficial bacteria have been eliminated and you will need to add something like fritz zyme to add some bacteria back to your rocks. You may find the rocks will leech some bad things if they had life like bristle worms in them that perished from the heat as well. Keep after the test and good luck.

32 LED CORALIFE BIOCUBE

My tank got up 95 degrees the other day, so I've gone through the process of taking everything out that was dead and cleaning rocks and changing filters. The ammonia: 1.0 ppm, nitrite 1.0 ppm, nitrate 10.0 ppm. What can I do to fix this? I've already done a 20 gallon water change and have no more RO/DI water.

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[CarrieB]

What livestock do you have left in the tank. You should move any fish or inverts to a separate container with clean saltwater and a bubbler and heater while your tank finishes cycling. You can use prime to manage the ammonia in the temp tank.


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[Robert Boukari]

What livestock do you have left in the tank. You should move any fish or inverts to a separate container with clean saltwater and a bubbler and heater while your tank finishes cycling. You can use prime to manage the ammonia in the temp tank.


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I have a large green star polyp rock, devils finger, 6 Yuma mushrooms, a few Duncan heads and a few small zoanthid colonies

 

[CarrieB]

The coral should tolerate ammonia better than fish or inverts.


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[Robert Boukari]

How long does it take for a biocube to cycle?

 

[Timfish]

Only thing I would do is run some quality GAC and continue with weekly 10% - 20% water changes. Leave your lights on their normal schedule. If you track your ammonia over the next few days you'll most likely see it drop as the bugs and corals start to recover. You should expect to see nuisance algae problems the next 2, 3 0r 4 months as your system recovers. I would recommend just manual removal and algae eaters like Tuxedo/Royal urchins, Sallylightfoot crabs and larger hermits like Blue Knee, aka Electric hermits, and thin strip hermits. I would not worry about nitrates. I've seen nitrates spike in situations like this and I've always found them to subside on their own with water changes and restocking corals.

 

[d2mini]

32 LED CORALIFE BIOCUBE

My tank got up 95 degrees the other day, so I've gone through the process of taking everything out that was dead and cleaning rocks and changing filters. The ammonia: 1.0 ppm, nitrite 1.0 ppm, nitrate 10.0 ppm. What can I do to fix this? I've already done a 20 gallon water change and have no more RO/DI water.

As close to a 100% water change as you can.
Coral and fish are already stressed so don't worry about that.
Even if fish are flapping on the sand bottom, get the old water out and new water in ASAP. Just make sure your temp is correct.

And then run carbon as suggested.