Jonleda
New member
Hi all,
I have been in the hobby on and off for 40yrs or so breeding and showing mainly freshwater fish and as a specialty Chiclids. I decided after some reading to try Marines about 2yrs ago now.
I moved and my ability to have four 4' tank set ups and multiple tanks and show tanks to a miserly 100 litre tank mainly due to the house build and lack of space.
I have had my tank set up now for almost 2 yrs and my efforts produced great results until about 2-3 weeks ago. I bought the Reef Seney system and thought this would be able to be a second eye on my system (partner has no idea apart from that's a pretty fish...dragon wrasse)
So I have a small set up, 100 litre Askoll tank with a ocean-free-hydra-40-internal-filter-and-depurator and a hydra 20 as well as the internal Askoll XL tanks internal filter so in all we have in excess of 1000 liters per hour of filtration in my 100 litre tank. Lighting is managed by an Aqua Ray reef system. I also have approximately 20lbs of live rock and live Caribbean sand
inhabitants of the tank are
2 x clown fish
1x sail fin tang (not an addition of mine)
1x blue neon cheek goby
1x 6 band wrasse
all were small fish at the time, I was away when the tank was stocked but they all lived happily for a year until 3 weeks ago
I had 2 cleaner shrimps and 2 Fire shrimps they died and were removed, all apparently healthy until they passed.
Now the Ammonia issue has occurred in the last 2 weeks I have a seneye reef unit monitoring the aquarium and it shows now 0.072ppm Ammonia this has risen in the last 2 weeks from 0.001ppm.
Tonight I have performed a 30% water change and with all the filtration I am at a loss as to why now there is a major spike i.e 0.076ppm Ammonia.
So what do I do? Strip down the tank and get rid of any live rock or and Zoa's and have a small fish only or is this manageable at almost 1000 litres per hr filtration.
Any ideas..
I have been in the hobby on and off for 40yrs or so breeding and showing mainly freshwater fish and as a specialty Chiclids. I decided after some reading to try Marines about 2yrs ago now.
I moved and my ability to have four 4' tank set ups and multiple tanks and show tanks to a miserly 100 litre tank mainly due to the house build and lack of space.
I have had my tank set up now for almost 2 yrs and my efforts produced great results until about 2-3 weeks ago. I bought the Reef Seney system and thought this would be able to be a second eye on my system (partner has no idea apart from that's a pretty fish...dragon wrasse)
So I have a small set up, 100 litre Askoll tank with a ocean-free-hydra-40-internal-filter-and-depurator and a hydra 20 as well as the internal Askoll XL tanks internal filter so in all we have in excess of 1000 liters per hour of filtration in my 100 litre tank. Lighting is managed by an Aqua Ray reef system. I also have approximately 20lbs of live rock and live Caribbean sand
inhabitants of the tank are
2 x clown fish
1x sail fin tang (not an addition of mine)
1x blue neon cheek goby
1x 6 band wrasse
all were small fish at the time, I was away when the tank was stocked but they all lived happily for a year until 3 weeks ago
I had 2 cleaner shrimps and 2 Fire shrimps they died and were removed, all apparently healthy until they passed.
Now the Ammonia issue has occurred in the last 2 weeks I have a seneye reef unit monitoring the aquarium and it shows now 0.072ppm Ammonia this has risen in the last 2 weeks from 0.001ppm.
Tonight I have performed a 30% water change and with all the filtration I am at a loss as to why now there is a major spike i.e 0.076ppm Ammonia.
So what do I do? Strip down the tank and get rid of any live rock or and Zoa's and have a small fish only or is this manageable at almost 1000 litres per hr filtration.
Any ideas..
