something is up with my tank!!
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saturn tech
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how about you just make life easier on yourself and just leave everything alone for a month or so. if the clean up crew is doing fine leave them in there and watch the sand bed get all nice and pretty again once water parameters zero out by them selves.
dude just wait, you are going through classic case of new tank syndrome. JUST WAIT IT OUT. get a good protein skimmer and WAIT!!!
dude just wait, you are going through classic case of new tank syndrome. JUST WAIT IT OUT. get a good protein skimmer and WAIT!!!
rustybucket145
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Just off the top of my head... do you by chance have a Seaclone?
And since this is the problem with your skimmer, you should have posted this issue long ago in the DIY forum. There are guys there that know exactly what modifications to make to certain skimmers in order to make them perform right.
Get your skimmer RIGHT!! Or buy a better skimmer. And everything else will fall right in line. I promise!
Your post in the DIY Forum should read something like this:
I have a {blank} skimmer, ever since I bought it I can't get it to work right. When it's skimming properly it shoots micro-bubbles all over my tank. When I set it to where the bubbles dissapear so does the skimmate. I have been fighting this issue for a while now with no success. My tank and inhabitants are suffering b/c of this problem. I have hair algae starting to grow on my sandbed and I'm afraid that my nutrients are getting out of control.
I'd like to know if there are any modifications I can do to this skimmer or do I need to trash it and get a new one. If new, could you guys please make some recommendations for me? My price range is $X-$Y and my tank specs are......... and so on.
reeftanker04
Premium Member
I don't know why you would x-fer your water (with ammonia and nitrates) to a smaller tank and expect the results to be any different.
Leave everything in there, do a 25% water change today, test it and if needed do another 25% water change. I don't think moving livestock into another tank is in your best (or the fish best interest).
UnderCoverDork
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i had the same issue with my skimmer...i have a 20g and a Aqua C remora hang-on/bac-pac skimmer. I bought the "prefilter box" witch got rid of 90% of the micro bubbles. It also acctually skims the surface 10x better. So if you have an aqua C, get the prfilter box.
EWC88
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http://cgi.ebay.com/PROTEIN-SKIMMER...ryZ46313QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
thats the one I have
thats the one I have
IPowderBlueTang
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I agree with the others, leave your tank alone with no other livestock additions for a month to 6 weeks and let it settle in and mature a bit and see how things are doing.
When adding livestock you have to let the bioload catch up before adding more. In freshwater you can get away with it in salt water it can actually throw your system out of wack!
Your probably getting an ammonia spike because your system is trying to catch up with your sudden increase in bioload due to adding too much livestock at once.
I would also invest in a decent skimmer, that is a necessity in this hobby if you want to keep fish!
When adding fish take your time and add one fish and wait a few weeks to let the tank parameters catch up and then add another!
When adding livestock you have to let the bioload catch up before adding more. In freshwater you can get away with it in salt water it can actually throw your system out of wack!
Your probably getting an ammonia spike because your system is trying to catch up with your sudden increase in bioload due to adding too much livestock at once.
I would also invest in a decent skimmer, that is a necessity in this hobby if you want to keep fish!
When adding fish take your time and add one fish and wait a few weeks to let the tank parameters catch up and then add another!
UrbanSage
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Dude...... It doesn't work like that..... (I don't even wanna dig into what you mean by "bad bacteria").
People "cook" their rock to leach organics out of the rock.
Dipping it in fresh water will just kill organisms which in turn will cause another spike in the nitrogen cycle.
Leave the tank alone, let it be ugly for a while. It will come around as long as you care for it properly.
What do you mean by "horrible" and what makes you want to remove it?
If you do want to remove it, you can siphon it out.
jmguerry12
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if you want your sand bed clean get nassarius snail....but wait until your tank fully cycles.....just chill it will look ugly but it has to cycle...no ones tank in the beginning is spotless and perfect reef.....its gotta be ugly to be clean
