cece50187
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Hi everyone..
I need help. My brother-in-law owned a 175 gallon reef tank. He passed away and we are left to take care of it. It is a beautiful tank. But because he took care of everything we know NOTHING.
Me and my husband did a lot of research on it and learned a great deal of things but still the tank is not how it used to be.
We did a water change a week ago to higher the salt level(because it was too low) and we constantly check the levels of everything in the tank.
The calcium is at 360 which I know is low. We put in chemicals to higher the calcium but it is not getting higher. Our phosphate is also high and I know that if the phosphate is high the calcium will not raise. I do not know how to lower the phosphate. It was at 2 and we put in something to lower it and now it went down to 1. But I cannot seem to lower it to 0. How do i do this? What do I need?
Today I came to the tank and I see that the mushrooms(that two days ago were flourishing) are disintegrating. Out of nowhere. They are kept low in the tank. And we have mushrooms all over the tank but only one section is being affected.
Also, we had a yellow tang that since the passing of my brother-in-law has started to look very thin. Before that I remember he was healthy and not as skinny. You can see his skeleton. All the other fish are eating well, just not the yellow tang. He was getting stuck to the filters and twice we saved him but today we came too late.
Another thing is our hard coral are also dying.
I need help because I do not want to let this tank go to waste. Not only did he spend sooo much money on this tank, he spent all his time and energy on it. I cant imagine coming to his house and the tank not there. PLEASE HELP
P.S. - pH is at 8.3 which i was told is good. Temperature is at 80-81. That is how he left it. And ammonia looks as if it is .50 maybe .25 can't really tell, but it is def. not 0.
THANK YOU
I need help. My brother-in-law owned a 175 gallon reef tank. He passed away and we are left to take care of it. It is a beautiful tank. But because he took care of everything we know NOTHING.
Me and my husband did a lot of research on it and learned a great deal of things but still the tank is not how it used to be.
We did a water change a week ago to higher the salt level(because it was too low) and we constantly check the levels of everything in the tank.
The calcium is at 360 which I know is low. We put in chemicals to higher the calcium but it is not getting higher. Our phosphate is also high and I know that if the phosphate is high the calcium will not raise. I do not know how to lower the phosphate. It was at 2 and we put in something to lower it and now it went down to 1. But I cannot seem to lower it to 0. How do i do this? What do I need?
Today I came to the tank and I see that the mushrooms(that two days ago were flourishing) are disintegrating. Out of nowhere. They are kept low in the tank. And we have mushrooms all over the tank but only one section is being affected.
Also, we had a yellow tang that since the passing of my brother-in-law has started to look very thin. Before that I remember he was healthy and not as skinny. You can see his skeleton. All the other fish are eating well, just not the yellow tang. He was getting stuck to the filters and twice we saved him but today we came too late.
Another thing is our hard coral are also dying.
I need help because I do not want to let this tank go to waste. Not only did he spend sooo much money on this tank, he spent all his time and energy on it. I cant imagine coming to his house and the tank not there. PLEASE HELP
P.S. - pH is at 8.3 which i was told is good. Temperature is at 80-81. That is how he left it. And ammonia looks as if it is .50 maybe .25 can't really tell, but it is def. not 0.
THANK YOU
