tyrfing
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Here are my specs:
75 gallon reef tank, 3.5 inch sand bed, 75 lbs live rock, protein skimmer etc.
First, let me say that I moved too fast and am returning the favor to MLFS by ordering on line in the future. At any rate...
I have a nice rock of button polyps, a great pice of colt coral, two gorgeous feather dusters, and unidentified coral that looks like (I'm not kidding) buckwheat's hairdo. I had 3 damsels, two small lions and a pair of false perculas; lost everything except the clowns to a bacterial infection. My cleaning crew is 2 brittle stars, a coral banded shrimp, peppermint shrimp, about 25 turbo snails and probably 15 each of red & blue hermits.
The tank has sat by itself with just he cleaning crew for the past three weeks since I quarantined the clowns.
The problem: I can't get my ammonia down. It's been reading .25 since I put the tank up. Nitrates are 40 ppm & nitrites are .5 ppm. I switched test kits because I thought I might be getting a false reading, but both come out the same.
Why after 90 days can't I get the ammonia down? The other bizarre thing is that I have had a major pod bloom. The tank is just crawling with them. How can my water be so unhealthy, but still have a 'pod bloom?
75 gallon reef tank, 3.5 inch sand bed, 75 lbs live rock, protein skimmer etc.
First, let me say that I moved too fast and am returning the favor to MLFS by ordering on line in the future. At any rate...
I have a nice rock of button polyps, a great pice of colt coral, two gorgeous feather dusters, and unidentified coral that looks like (I'm not kidding) buckwheat's hairdo. I had 3 damsels, two small lions and a pair of false perculas; lost everything except the clowns to a bacterial infection. My cleaning crew is 2 brittle stars, a coral banded shrimp, peppermint shrimp, about 25 turbo snails and probably 15 each of red & blue hermits.
The tank has sat by itself with just he cleaning crew for the past three weeks since I quarantined the clowns.
The problem: I can't get my ammonia down. It's been reading .25 since I put the tank up. Nitrates are 40 ppm & nitrites are .5 ppm. I switched test kits because I thought I might be getting a false reading, but both come out the same.
Why after 90 days can't I get the ammonia down? The other bizarre thing is that I have had a major pod bloom. The tank is just crawling with them. How can my water be so unhealthy, but still have a 'pod bloom?
I'd get it independedntly checked by ur LFS as well... some test kits don't work!