TrueIrishFan616
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I've read through many of the stickies, but I dont have all of the info that is suggested. If it's okay with ya'll, I'll just give what parameters i've got and hopefully someone can help me out.
Lighting: 4 bulb T5's
Tank: 75 gallon standard tank
Rock: 90ish lbs. of live rock
Temp: 78 degrees
Salinity: 1.025
Sump: 36 gallon bow front 3 chamber DIY sump. First chamber has a Reef Octopus 150 Skimmer. Second chamber is full of Filter Floss(I dont have my refuge up yet). Third chamber is the return pump(mag drive 9).
Fish: 2 regular baby clowns. I HAD 2 green chromis but they've been MIA for the past 2 days.
Other inhabitants: 12 or 13 Blue legged hermits, 2 mexican turbo snails, 10 "zombie snails", 1 Skunk Cleaner shimp(I had 2, but one's been MIA for about 2 weeks.
Ammonia: less than .20
Nitrates: close to 0
Nitrites: around 20
I DO use RO/DI water for everything.
The coral's I've got are these:
Flintstone Zoa's
Radioactive orange Paly's
Yellow Hornet Zoa's
Tequila Sunrise Zoa's
Glow in the dark Goni's
I've had a few zoa's for about 2 weeks and they've been doing fine. then the other day, I came home from work and ALL of them were closed. I waited another day and still closed. I came home today and still closed. They're placed close to the bottom of the tank. Some are in somewhat direct flow of my power heads. I've been feeding them ReefSnow every other day and they LOVE it. however, they're not open anymore so I cant feed em directly. I've just been putting the Snow in direct flow of one of my power heads the past day or so. I have NO idea why they've closed up like this. It's frustrating me. Is there something that I should be doing that I havent done? I've done a 10 gallon water change every day for the past 5 days trying to get them to open up. My ammonia level was a bit high a few days ago(.75).
I know this isnt exactly painting the best picture, but I just dont wanna lose my zoa's while I wait to get a test kit for all of the stuff that I need. Any, and I mean ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
Lighting: 4 bulb T5's
Tank: 75 gallon standard tank
Rock: 90ish lbs. of live rock
Temp: 78 degrees
Salinity: 1.025
Sump: 36 gallon bow front 3 chamber DIY sump. First chamber has a Reef Octopus 150 Skimmer. Second chamber is full of Filter Floss(I dont have my refuge up yet). Third chamber is the return pump(mag drive 9).
Fish: 2 regular baby clowns. I HAD 2 green chromis but they've been MIA for the past 2 days.
Other inhabitants: 12 or 13 Blue legged hermits, 2 mexican turbo snails, 10 "zombie snails", 1 Skunk Cleaner shimp(I had 2, but one's been MIA for about 2 weeks.
Ammonia: less than .20
Nitrates: close to 0
Nitrites: around 20
I DO use RO/DI water for everything.
The coral's I've got are these:
Flintstone Zoa's
Radioactive orange Paly's
Yellow Hornet Zoa's
Tequila Sunrise Zoa's
Glow in the dark Goni's
I've had a few zoa's for about 2 weeks and they've been doing fine. then the other day, I came home from work and ALL of them were closed. I waited another day and still closed. I came home today and still closed. They're placed close to the bottom of the tank. Some are in somewhat direct flow of my power heads. I've been feeding them ReefSnow every other day and they LOVE it. however, they're not open anymore so I cant feed em directly. I've just been putting the Snow in direct flow of one of my power heads the past day or so. I have NO idea why they've closed up like this. It's frustrating me. Is there something that I should be doing that I havent done? I've done a 10 gallon water change every day for the past 5 days trying to get them to open up. My ammonia level was a bit high a few days ago(.75).
I know this isnt exactly painting the best picture, but I just dont wanna lose my zoa's while I wait to get a test kit for all of the stuff that I need. Any, and I mean ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
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