sunfish11
Premium Member
My tank is in wall and my fish room has two cat litter boxes in it. The room isn't really large. They are cleaned daily, but still at times you can smell amonia. Could this enter the tank via the skimmer air injector (one box is close to the skimmer air intake.) or just by having the amonia vapor and the water in the same room? It seems that it could...I have always had higher nitrates in this tank and I haven't been able to figure out where they are coming from yet, and I thought that perhaps this could have something to do with it. While I can't detect amonia on a test kit it think my tank could be used to the higher "bioload" of cats.
I have cheato that and a 4 inch sand bed as well as 250lbs of live rock. Other params stay within normal range. Tank has been up for 16 months and inhabitants are healthy. Hard coral is growing, but slowly. LPS and softies are thriving. No algea, diatom, or cyano issues.
All test kits are Salifert.
PO4 - undetectable
Amonia - undetectable
Nitrite - undetectable
Nitrate - 40-50ppm
PH - 8.3
dkh - 9.6
Cal - 400
Temp - 79-81F
Thanks,
Lisa

All test kits are Salifert.
PO4 - undetectable
Amonia - undetectable
Nitrite - undetectable
Nitrate - 40-50ppm
PH - 8.3
dkh - 9.6
Cal - 400
Temp - 79-81F
Thanks,
Lisa