Uh oh Saghetios

new2u

Member
Uh oh I've had a 1.0 amonia spike, yeahup thats right nitrates are 0 and nitrates are 30 and ammonia's my only problem. Oh and i know my 2 causes as well so heres my story:
I'm going to sell my wet dry filter soon because I have enough LR in my tank, I'm adding a sump/fuge/skimmer and its become a nitrate factory so i've been taking out bioballs 2 handfulls a day (too fast)
PROBLEM 1: I took out the bio balls as 2 big handfulls every day
PROBLEM 2: Overstocked
yes, would you like to hear my 58 gallon stocking list?
6 chromis 18 inches
2 black and white stripe damsels 6 inches
2 clowns 6 inches
1 coral beaut 4 inches
1 diamond back goby 5 inches
that all adds up to what 39 inches?
so heres my solution(s)
SOLUTION 1- but my bioballs back in ( I already did)
SOLUTION 2- bye bye chromis, actually they're going tommorow some1 in my area has been wanting to buy them and Is coming tommorow
SOLUTION 3- I've been curing 7 pounds of LR and I'm going to add them tommorow after I wash them
should I be fine? I know I know here comes the flame... please be nice
 

new2u

Member
OM frikin G I just realized what happened, about 3 days ago I spotted my sponge (unkown hitchiker) dyeing so I peeled it off and today when I came home from thanks giving it was completely gone coudl this be the cause? I think it is. Let me go check my nitrite test agian too.
 

new2u

Member
ok I'm calmed down now, how should I go about removing the bioballs now? A handfull every other day?
 

squidd

Active Member
If you have enough LR surface area to sustain your bio load, they you should be able to remove your bio balls over a period of time...
I don't know what "Two Large Handfuls a day" looks like, but if that emptied your W/D in two days that was too fast...
So, if "One Handful every other day" takes about Two Weeks to remove them all that would be better..and would allow the bacteria time to re populate on the LR...
And it sounds like it could have been a combination of the sponge dieing and too quick removal of the Bio balls that caused the "spikes"...
 

new2u

Member
yeah i just put all the bioballs but a couple back in and everything is fine so im just going to remove slowly Oh and by fine i mean 0s
 
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