Pennylesst
New member
I’m sure my impatience is the reason for my woes…so feel free to roast me after reading my post…
Set Up
12g JBJ Nano Cube
Oceanic Salt and RO water
14 lbs cured Fiji/Tonga rock
1 ½ - 2 inches Agra-Alive Sand bed
At one week parameters were reading for several days at
pH 8.2
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 10-20
S.G. 1.025
Temp 73-75
Performed 10% water change. Was told it was okay to get a cleaner crew.
Added 2 Nassaurius snails, 4 turban snails and was talked into by LFS person to get a Green Chromis and a Yellow Tail Chromis. I also added 1 cup of grape caulerpa.
Parameters were the same for another week.
Went to get another Chromis since I read they are schooling fish, but didn’t, instead got a feather duster, a frag of combo zoo’s, a frag of blue mushrooms, and a small stalk of Xenia. I drip acclimated them and all looked great. Next morning Green Chromis is dead. Xenia all balled up. Everything else still looked great. Tested parameters:
pH 8.2
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrites 0.25
Nitrates 20
Temp 73-75
S.G. 1.025
Since the levels were creeping up I did a 10% water change. This morning the Yellow Tailed Chromis was dying and the parameters were still the same. Xenia was still wadded up.
Have I royally screwed up and the tank wasn’t really cycled? I have not had the diatom bloom. Is this possibly why my parameters are off? Or could it have been from adding so many things at once that it threw the bio load off? I would have thought that the levels would have went down at least a little with the water change.
I am second guessing everything I have done now. I feel terrible. I welcome constructive criticism.
Thanks!
Let the torching begin…..
Set Up
12g JBJ Nano Cube
Oceanic Salt and RO water
14 lbs cured Fiji/Tonga rock
1 ½ - 2 inches Agra-Alive Sand bed
At one week parameters were reading for several days at
pH 8.2
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 10-20
S.G. 1.025
Temp 73-75
Performed 10% water change. Was told it was okay to get a cleaner crew.
Added 2 Nassaurius snails, 4 turban snails and was talked into by LFS person to get a Green Chromis and a Yellow Tail Chromis. I also added 1 cup of grape caulerpa.
Parameters were the same for another week.
Went to get another Chromis since I read they are schooling fish, but didn’t, instead got a feather duster, a frag of combo zoo’s, a frag of blue mushrooms, and a small stalk of Xenia. I drip acclimated them and all looked great. Next morning Green Chromis is dead. Xenia all balled up. Everything else still looked great. Tested parameters:
pH 8.2
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrites 0.25
Nitrates 20
Temp 73-75
S.G. 1.025
Since the levels were creeping up I did a 10% water change. This morning the Yellow Tailed Chromis was dying and the parameters were still the same. Xenia was still wadded up.
Have I royally screwed up and the tank wasn’t really cycled? I have not had the diatom bloom. Is this possibly why my parameters are off? Or could it have been from adding so many things at once that it threw the bio load off? I would have thought that the levels would have went down at least a little with the water change.
I am second guessing everything I have done now. I feel terrible. I welcome constructive criticism.
Thanks!
Let the torching begin…..