I had a freshwater 75 Gallon tank with rock gravel substrate and an eheim 2217 for over a year and some months.
I recently decided to convert my tank into brackish water.
2 days to my conversion I serviced my Eheim 2217 canister filter. I rinsed out in tap water the carbon sponge and the white sponge and the blue sponge.. I used tank water to service the stuff that looks like rings and the other stuff that looks like coco puffs. After that I put all back together again and let it run on the freshwater tank.
2 Days later I got rid of my fish and did a 50 % water changed of that old water that wasnt changed in like 3 weeks.
While my tank was half empty I decided to remove the rock gravel substrate and replace the substrate with Crushed Coral.
After I replaced the substrate I filled up the tank with the 50 % more water and added water conditioner and TLC (BB). So now I have half old water and half new water.
I let the tank run......
The next morning I added some Sea salt and raised my Specific gravity to 1.002. I was told that if I add too much in one **** I would kill all my BB.
I was told by the LFS that I needed a hard fish to get the tank going so I got a Male Molly.
4 Days later I tested my water parameters and the pH is 8.0 , Ammonia is .50 PPM, Nitrite is .25 PPM and Nitrate is 5.0 PPM.
Whats going on with the tank? Am I going through a recycle? If so why?
What can I do now?
I recently decided to convert my tank into brackish water.
2 days to my conversion I serviced my Eheim 2217 canister filter. I rinsed out in tap water the carbon sponge and the white sponge and the blue sponge.. I used tank water to service the stuff that looks like rings and the other stuff that looks like coco puffs. After that I put all back together again and let it run on the freshwater tank.
2 Days later I got rid of my fish and did a 50 % water changed of that old water that wasnt changed in like 3 weeks.
While my tank was half empty I decided to remove the rock gravel substrate and replace the substrate with Crushed Coral.
After I replaced the substrate I filled up the tank with the 50 % more water and added water conditioner and TLC (BB). So now I have half old water and half new water.
I let the tank run......
The next morning I added some Sea salt and raised my Specific gravity to 1.002. I was told that if I add too much in one **** I would kill all my BB.
I was told by the LFS that I needed a hard fish to get the tank going so I got a Male Molly.
4 Days later I tested my water parameters and the pH is 8.0 , Ammonia is .50 PPM, Nitrite is .25 PPM and Nitrate is 5.0 PPM.
Whats going on with the tank? Am I going through a recycle? If so why?
What can I do now?
