water par.out of wack

bonerac

bonerac

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i recently added 65 lbs of LR i got off craigslist. it has alot of aiptasia on it that i have been killing with joe juice and aiptasia-x for about a week now my par. have risen since i have started this treatment i treat every other day when i noticed my levels going up i started doing 10gal. water changes on the days i dont treat the rock. could killing all the aiptasia cause my water par. to rise or may i have something else going on in the tank? i have not had any fish die off but have lost a few herrmit crabs
water par. are
ph 8.2
amo. .25 ppm
nitrate 2.5 ppm
nitrites .05 ppm
water temp 75
thanks for any advice


 
fretfreak13

fretfreak13

Active Member
If you did what Meowzer asked, you'll have die off because the rock was out of the water for a certian ammount of time and the organisims die. For example, when a fish dies you'll have your parameters spike because of the decay. Same as if you have die off. Looks like you have a mini cycle on your hands. I saw the little clownfish (pretty hardy, you should be fine), what else do you have in your tank?
Also, isn't your temperature a little low? I keep mine at eighty, but I'm not exactly sure 75 is terrible.
 
bonerac

bonerac

Member
yes i transported the rock in 5 gal buckets with water from the tank igot them from it was about an hour ride. for fish i also have a scorpion fish about 4" and a coarl beauty for fish and a variaty of herrmit crabs and snails for a cuc i killed all of the large aiptasia off gonna get a few pepermint shrimp from lfs on monday to take care of what i cant reach. about how long will a mini cycle and is 10 gal water changes every 2-3 days to much or to little in a 110 gal tank. yes my temp. is low we had a cool night last night and i left the windows open in the house. time to put the heater back in the tank i take it out durring the sumer time.
thanks for the advice
 
meowzer

meowzer

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IMO if you have ammonia and trites showing you need to do larger w/c's at LEAST (if not more) 20%....
You may have stirred some stuff up when you put the rock in also.....
 
fretfreak13

fretfreak13

Active Member
Ah, I take mine out during the summer too. I'm not sure how long the mini cycle will last exactly. I'm fifteen, so it's hard for me to buy LR so when I do I usually only get one peice at a time. I get a little ammonia spike every time I add a new peice, do a 5 gallon water change, and then it's done with. I only have a 29 gallon though, so I'm not exactly sure how many water changes you'd have to do to take care of your mini cycle. Sorry, hopefully someone with a bigger tank can chip in here. Good luck though.
 
bonerac

bonerac

Member
ok sounds like a good plan to me thanks again. now another ? as you can see in the pictures there are also some red mushrooms about 20 or so on these rocks is this enough light for them i have 1 48" t-5 ho fixture with one 10,000 daylight lamp and one actinic lamp 56 watts each and i have a second 48" coralife fixture with 2 50/50 10'000 and actinic lamps 65 watts each. is this ok thanks
 
fretfreak13

fretfreak13

Active Member
Yeah, I have two mushrooms in regular like...fourescent lights. The kind that come with like a premade freshwater setup and they're fine.
 
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