help highnitrite

[jbunion]

hello i have had my reef tank for 2 years never had any problems yet tell to day the fish are breathing hard and my corels r all closed i chaned my water 30%two days ago the ph is at 8.4 nitrite off the chart and ammonia at 0.50 and nitrate around 20 ppm there is a brown aleag all over what do i do

 

[bigarn]

Wow!...did something die in the tank? Did you recently add any fish? Is the lighting older or newer? Be sure you have good filtration and water circulation throughout the tank.
Do you have a big enough cleanup crew to handle the bioload?
Did you use RO water?

 

[jbunion]

thanks yes i did just get a pink dansel the same day i changed the water the lights are old and and i have 2 power heads and i have a fluvel 204 and 20 gallon fuge

 

[jbunion]

nothing died yet

 

[jbunion]

yes its ro water from a water compony and i dont think there is a big enouf clean up but it been ok so fare tell now

 

[bigarn]

I'd look into getting new lights. I don't know how many fish you have, but the addition of the last one may have exceeded the systems bioload. I'd beef up the clean up crew and do weekly 10% water changes.
HTH

 

[jbunion]

so a 10% water change will help now or is there somthing i can do now to help

 

[jbunion]

i have new light on the way just orded them from swf

 

[bigarn]

IMO the water changes will help now.
Glad you ordered the lights!

 

[jbunion]

thanks