Params update on my new 2ft: a problem arises...

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Lord Gaz

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I've been naughty during my cycle period of my tank, which is in its 4 week of cycling, and I added some fish that I caught in there. 2 Mono-angel like fish, 4.5" and 4" long, I chucked in there along with 2 really small gobie-like things, and my params has skyrocketed immensely!
This is a list of params that I checked from before and after I put the fish in:

BEFORE (15th Dec) -------------------------------------- AFTER (19th DEC)
pH: 8.0 ph: 7.8
Nitrate: 0 mg/l Nitrate: 10 mg/l
Nitrite: 0.25 mg/l Nitrite: 5 mg/l
Ammonia: 1 mg/l Ammonia: 4 mg/l

What should I do? leave all the stuff in there as they are and let the cycle continue? Or take all de fish and crabs that I have in there and cycle from there?
 
First off can you tell us what your complete setup is?
 
You need to do water changes everyday and treat with Prime as well.
 
Oh sorry, it's a FOWLR set up, 75L.
 
Well I would do water changes like 20 gallons every other day until things calm down. Also if you have a skimmer then you should skim really wet until things settel. Also what kind of filtration are you using?
Good luck.
 
I'm using a 1500/hr cannister with carbon, filter wool, noodles and this other white rock thing, Purigen or soemthing. I got a protein skimmer coming from overseas 'cause my friend's over there and he said they were much cheaper than what I get here. I've got roughly 3 Kgs of live rock in there for about 2 weeks.

I think I'll sacrifice all the fish in there as well as the crabs and stuff to let my water cycle properly, like it should've been in the first place. I'm so looking forward to my dwarf zebra lion or clowns that I wanna get things right. Can't afford to get them and have them die. Too expensive and too sad.

By the way, does freshwater PH Up work for Saltwater tanks?
 
Most people only use a canister filter for carbon and maybe purigen. No noodles and filter floss etc. A good HOB skimmer, Power heads, live sand and rock is all the filtration you need. A salt tank is different than a fresh the media in the canister will become a nitrate trap and seep notrates and phosphates back into your system causing problems. It takes a bit longer for a salt tank to cycle than a fresh also. It took my 75 Reefready about 2.5 months to cycle. I have 150lbs of live rock and 80 lbs of live sand.

Good luck
 
sprayin70;622853; said:
Most people only use a canister filter for carbon and maybe purigen. No noodles and filter floss etc. A good HOB skimmer, Power heads, live sand and rock is all the filtration you need. A salt tank is different than a fresh the media in the canister will become a nitrate trap and seep notrates and phosphates back into your system causing problems. It takes a bit longer for a salt tank to cycle than a fresh also. It took my 75 Reefready about 2.5 months to cycle. I have 150lbs of live rock and 80 lbs of live sand.

Good luck
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Yea, the media puts it in a place where it breaks down rapidly. In a salt tank the biodiverity is so high that there is stuff everything that wants to eat it. All you need to worry about is protein skimming, lots of turnover, and lots of live rock. I don't think you have enough live rock.
 
So should I take out the filter wool and replace it with more purigen?

At this rate I think I have to increase my cycle time and get more filter media. Will it be too late to replace some of the media with new ones?
 
You can run alot of purigen it is like a chemical skimmer, change carbon every like 20 days or so. Other than that just let the tank cycle and add a goo skimmer also I would take out the fish and add some more live rock.
 
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