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Pazzoman

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My investments are at risk as well as my reef!

Hey Everybody, I notice my mushrroms not looking so good so I tested the and nitrates are skyrocketed as well as ammonia! Can't believe!
Should I do a major water change right now? (Currently filling up a 20 gallon cotainer with ro water) or should I move as many corals into my 10 galllon tank which is empty....the fish I can try moving them to my cousin's quarentine tank...

Im worried very worried, my red mushrooms are already dead...peeling off the rocks as well as my hairy mushrroms.

Probably water changes will be only option right but... it will be 6 hours in between for every 20 gallon cause of ro unit...
 
Just did a 20 gallon water change....will set the ro water container again and tomorrow will perform another 20 gallon water change.
 
Water changes are the ONLY thing that reduces nitrates unfortunately. What size is the tank.... ??
I would do 10% water changes daily... or you could do 25% every other day, for a week then let it run a few days and see if it has improved...But you don't want to do a MAJOR water change right out of the gate.
Moving coral into an uncycled tank is worse than leaving it in a tank that is going through hell... also, moving fish into a quarantine tank, with extremely different paramaters could also be dangerous to their health.... i would just take the chance, and do water changes often. until it decreases..
 
Bummer, water changes are your best bet. Did you find something in your tank that could have caused the spike? Because if not, the mushrooms dieing is what caused the spike. Which possibly means you have something else to worry about.
 
My tank is 72 gallons, all this stock is still thier... in the beginning i notice my mushrroms not looking to good...but then when I realize I had ammonia spike they started to die...could it be old tank syndrome?

I have a 33 gallon sump...probably another 20 gallons.......
 
It's entierly possible the mushrooms not looking right was a sign that one or more of them was dieing. As things dieing always causes ammonia spikes, and with the spike the rest of them would either finish dieing or start dieing, if there is nothing else dead or missing it was likely them, unless someone was feeding your tanks heavily without your knowledge.
 
Hey everybody, thanks for the inputs. The water is back to normal, after that water change along with a 5 gallon water change today.

The mushies don't all look too good, however one or two mushrooms on the 2 mushrooms rocks I have look fine...should I scarpe off the ones I think are dead or should I just wait it out?

I'm gonna try to have a fixed water change schedraul probably Every week a 10 gallon water change... instead of my usually 20 gallon water change a month
 
Jrob said:
Water changes are the ONLY thing that reduces nitrates .
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I guess if this were true Purgiun, Chem Pure, and numerous others would be outta business.

Go get yourself some "carbon P" + a few units of chem pure elite for Toxins and cycling by-products ( from Ammonia to Phosphate)
 
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