Water problems

He he he.

 

Thanks for all the information passed along!

I did a 20% water change last night and checked everything this morning again:

PARAMETERS (important)
Temperature: 76-78
PH: 8.2
Ammonia: .25
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10
Salinity: 1.025

Is it safe to do another 20% water change today or should I do it tomorrow? I dont want to throw things off too much too quickly.

 

Take the NO3 test again 24 hours after you did the change and see what it reads. If it is lower then wait a little longer and take the reading again.

 

i wonder about the skimmer. are you running all the time? and is it the right size for your tank? try tanking the whole skimmer out a cleaning out the whole thing

 

I have the skimmer on all the time and its been pulling out a lot of junk. I just cleaned completely cleaned it last week and have to empty it every few days.

 

i would do another water change. the only few times ive had an ammonia spikes is becouse of something dying. i had a torch coral go on me once i ended up doing several water changs. it was in a 55 gal. i did 5gal. change twice a day for 3 days one in the earily day an one at nite. then one aday for like 5 days afterwords to get the affects of that dying torch

 

PARAMETERS (important)
Temperature: 76-78
PH: 8.2
Ammonia: .25
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10
Salinity: 1.025

I just cannot seem to get the nitrates and ammonia down any further with the water changes. I have some cyanobacteria growing on the sand on on the rock now. I was reading about bio balls messing things up, should they be removed or just cleaned very well? Any suggestions on what the next step should be?

Thanks for the help.

 

Cut your feeding back to the bare minimum. Look again for something decaying.

Does anyone clean in that area that may have used windex or some other ammonia based product?

 

I'm with ALW on this one, if you do have ammonia, I'd be very surprised that a 2 year old tank can't deal with some dying inhabitants - ammonia should break down quickly. Perhaps windex or other cleaning agent was introduced somehow. Any kids nearby?

Some nitrates are normal and 10 I would not be concerned with. Mine hover between 10 -20 and everything is doing great in my tank. I do have some algae, but, nothing I can't live with and clean and my snails and blenny dine on the rest.

 

Don't know if this was the exact fix but I pulled out the two bags of chemi pure that was in the sump and within a few days things began improving. Thanks for all of the info passed along!