thommyboy12183
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I have 2 cleaner shrimp in my tank. I have had the tank running for about a month with nothing in it but sand and live rock and tested my water and everything came back normal 0 nitrate and 0ppm nitrite. I finally added some snails, hermit crabs, 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 clowns, and 1 bi-color blenny in a 55G tank.
its now a week and all fish/inverts are doing great(so it seems) but my nitrite is between 3 and 5(on the test strip chart(listed as stress to danger) and between 20 and 40 for nitrate listed as okay.
I decided to cut back on feeding but now when i feed the shrimp i have steal the frozen cube and eat the whole thing it breaks up and the fish are getting some but i am not sure if they need more food but i am afraid to add more as i dont want my nitrate and nitrite levels to go up.
any advice on how to not have shrimp steal all food? or do you think things are normal?
as i only have the 3 fish and 2 shirmp i add a have a cube every other day(i was doing half a cube every day but my levels of nitrate and nitrite rose.
its now a week and all fish/inverts are doing great(so it seems) but my nitrite is between 3 and 5(on the test strip chart(listed as stress to danger) and between 20 and 40 for nitrate listed as okay.
I decided to cut back on feeding but now when i feed the shrimp i have steal the frozen cube and eat the whole thing it breaks up and the fish are getting some but i am not sure if they need more food but i am afraid to add more as i dont want my nitrate and nitrite levels to go up.
any advice on how to not have shrimp steal all food? or do you think things are normal?
as i only have the 3 fish and 2 shirmp i add a have a cube every other day(i was doing half a cube every day but my levels of nitrate and nitrite rose.