drogrant
New Member
Please help me...I have a 55 gallon tank with 50lb of base rock seeded with 30lbs live rock. I have a sump w/ refugium and a few nassarius snail and dwarf cerith snails. There was a total of 5 fish in the tank: 2 ocellaris clowns and 4 green chromis. I lost a clownfish today and I'm not sure why. So about three weeks ago my nitrate tested at 40 and I did a water change about 20%. Afterwards the water remained very cloudy for the following two weeks the ph has been at 7.8 since I started the tank and the nitrate never seems to hit zero. I have a kenya tree and some pink xenia, and some zoos. The Zoos are fine and Xenia, but the Kenya tree is always closed unless i turn off the powerhead, it has only been in the tank for 2 weeks. The tank was started on March 2. I have coraline algae on most of the base rock. The clownfish that died wasn't eating too much and I think the other clownfish is carrying eggs. One of the chromes is hiding behind a rock and has not come out...not even to eat...I am afraid I will loose him too. Water levels right now are Ammonia-0.25, Nitrite-0, Ph- 7.8, Nitrate-40. The tank is very cloudy from the side view but looking at it from front display it looks okay. Please help!