tank brought back to life

[bimmerboy1]

I use to have a 20 FOWLR with a cleaner shrimp and 2 yellow tail damsels. I moved up to a 50 FOWLR. I had it running for about 3-4 months, then got a few shrimp ( 2 cleaner and blood) a lawnmower blenny, 2 tru percs, coral beauty, green carpet, and a few other various corals and snails and I have about 75-85lbs of figi live rock. That went good for about 4 months, then the coral beauty died so I bought a royal gramma, and that was good for about a month after that. everything looked good, until grandma came to watch over it for a week... dead... everything within a week after i got back

. being 18 at the time I was done... had no money at all ( still dont know what had happened ... amonia was very high, and the true percs had ick) so I let the tank run for about 3 weeks after everything, water was fine and stable, got a brittle star and yellow tail damsel... he at the damsel (im an idiot) that was about 5 months ago. The brittle was still alive so I took him to the LPS and traded him in, and bought a cleaner shrimp, some snails, tru perc, and a blue hippo. the water is in good condition... except for nitrates. amonia is 0 nitrites are 0 PH is 8.0-8.2, but the nitrates are at like 50ppm. I checked the water before the fish and it was below 20ppm. what could be the cause/fix for this, and is it dangerous? I ordered a mandarin( I have an extremly large population of pods(tank being run for months and months while still cleaning and keeping care of the tank) and a few other "clean up crewers". I just want to make sure everything will be safe for my new baby... sorry for the long post, just kinda excited to be addicted again.

 

[microman2k]

well its GREAT to know that ur excited again! :cheer: its soooooooooo easy to get down on youself in this hobby, i do it way too often, about once a month too regular for me but in the end i always end up loving it! :happy:

 

[bluetang67]

50 ppm of nitrates is too high...partial water changes should bring it down.
also if your grandma was feeding your fish while you were gone i'd guess she overfed them.

 

[bimmerboy1]

I read around a little bit and it was said that on top of water change, LR would help out too so I think i am going to head off to the LPS and pick upt 10 more lbs... plus hey couldnt hurt cause I'm getting the psychadelic anyways. thanks for the help.