nathanrudy9
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hey friends,
ive recently got into salt water fish about a year or 2 ago i have a 55 gallon tank with 100 lb's of live premieum fiji rock..i also have florida keys sand about 45 lb's and its about 2.5 inches across the aquarium floor... i have 2 filters 1 ehim a decent one and one marineland filter also a decent one both are working nicely the water is crystal clear.I also have 2 48in bulbs with a clear glass top one is atonic (or blue) at 65 watts ...my problem is 2 weeks ago i bought about 6 fish for my tank...a yellow tang 3-5 in a blue hippo tang 3-5 in and 3 false percula aquacultered clown fish 1 inch ....the blue hippo tang was getting stuck in the rocks and so was the yellow tang they soon died and the 3 clown fish lived about a week...in that time i introduced about 10 dif. kind of corals and 5 dif anemones they all slowly died as well basically my tank crashed and i belive i added to many different things in a 2 weeks span...heres my problom now...the tank has bean cyclying several times since the last coral passed...maybe 3 or 4 times i did water changes 3 times this week about 25-35 percent at a time...i cant get all the paramaters on...the salinity is fine 1.021,the ph is fine 8.2 the temp is fine 78 deg. and the nitrate is fine at 20 mg, heres my huge problem i cant seem to fix my ammonia its sky rocketed way too high its like double the highest level not even close to 0 and the nitrite is also way to high...how to i bring down the ammonia and nitrite ? i did 3 water cycles this week and each time put in the cycle liquid for water changes and the ammonia and nitrites remain overwhelimingly high... PLEASE HELP!!!...I LOST OVER $1800 IN FISH INVERTS AND CORAL. any help would be great and i appreciate everyones help.
Nathan
ive recently got into salt water fish about a year or 2 ago i have a 55 gallon tank with 100 lb's of live premieum fiji rock..i also have florida keys sand about 45 lb's and its about 2.5 inches across the aquarium floor... i have 2 filters 1 ehim a decent one and one marineland filter also a decent one both are working nicely the water is crystal clear.I also have 2 48in bulbs with a clear glass top one is atonic (or blue) at 65 watts ...my problem is 2 weeks ago i bought about 6 fish for my tank...a yellow tang 3-5 in a blue hippo tang 3-5 in and 3 false percula aquacultered clown fish 1 inch ....the blue hippo tang was getting stuck in the rocks and so was the yellow tang they soon died and the 3 clown fish lived about a week...in that time i introduced about 10 dif. kind of corals and 5 dif anemones they all slowly died as well basically my tank crashed and i belive i added to many different things in a 2 weeks span...heres my problom now...the tank has bean cyclying several times since the last coral passed...maybe 3 or 4 times i did water changes 3 times this week about 25-35 percent at a time...i cant get all the paramaters on...the salinity is fine 1.021,the ph is fine 8.2 the temp is fine 78 deg. and the nitrate is fine at 20 mg, heres my huge problem i cant seem to fix my ammonia its sky rocketed way too high its like double the highest level not even close to 0 and the nitrite is also way to high...how to i bring down the ammonia and nitrite ? i did 3 water cycles this week and each time put in the cycle liquid for water changes and the ammonia and nitrites remain overwhelimingly high... PLEASE HELP!!!...I LOST OVER $1800 IN FISH INVERTS AND CORAL. any help would be great and i appreciate everyones help.
Nathan
