cdipasquale
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Hey everyone, need a little help here. I am raising my first clutch of clownfish larvae and I am struggling with the ammonia level in the larvae tank and could use some input from someone with more experience than me.
They are in a 10 gallon, a little less than half full. Eggs hatched on thursday night so today is day 3. It was a smaller clutch with about 100 or so eggs and I have at least 80-100 babies swimming around. They are babies from a picasso pair if that matters at all. I haven't really lost many, just a few of the smaller ones I find here and there dead on the bottom but for the most part they all seem to be doing well but I am worried about my ammonia levels.
My API kit is reading 8ppm which is the highest it reads, so I don't really know what the total ammonia level is but i'm assuming it's over 8ppm (this kit is only about 2 weeks old). The seachem ammonia alert is in the light blue(alarm). These two reading have been the same since the morning after the hatch. I have done twice daily water changes from my reef tank, lowering the specific gravity first to 1.020. (I have checked ammonia in reef tank and it is always 0, This tank has been up for years and is in excellent shape) I have been siphoning the gunk from the bottom 4-5 times a day. Rotifer population is high and I dose live nannochloropsis into the tank as needed to keep the water a light green. Most babies bellies are bulging and silver and they are swimming around looking perfectly happy.
Temperature is 81, ph stays 7.9-8.0 (wish it was lower so I didn't worry so much about the ammonia. From all my research, I feel like I am doing everything right and so far, so good. But this ammonia really worries me with meta coming up later this week.
Any input and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
They are in a 10 gallon, a little less than half full. Eggs hatched on thursday night so today is day 3. It was a smaller clutch with about 100 or so eggs and I have at least 80-100 babies swimming around. They are babies from a picasso pair if that matters at all. I haven't really lost many, just a few of the smaller ones I find here and there dead on the bottom but for the most part they all seem to be doing well but I am worried about my ammonia levels.
My API kit is reading 8ppm which is the highest it reads, so I don't really know what the total ammonia level is but i'm assuming it's over 8ppm (this kit is only about 2 weeks old). The seachem ammonia alert is in the light blue(alarm). These two reading have been the same since the morning after the hatch. I have done twice daily water changes from my reef tank, lowering the specific gravity first to 1.020. (I have checked ammonia in reef tank and it is always 0, This tank has been up for years and is in excellent shape) I have been siphoning the gunk from the bottom 4-5 times a day. Rotifer population is high and I dose live nannochloropsis into the tank as needed to keep the water a light green. Most babies bellies are bulging and silver and they are swimming around looking perfectly happy.
Temperature is 81, ph stays 7.9-8.0 (wish it was lower so I didn't worry so much about the ammonia. From all my research, I feel like I am doing everything right and so far, so good. But this ammonia really worries me with meta coming up later this week.
Any input and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.