Joshifer

Alright so it was bugging me why did everything go blank so I dosed liquid ammonia. It converted it to 1ppm nitrite. And now I have 5ppm nitrate. The ammonia is 0. This is in the matter of idk 3 hours. So tomorrow I’ll do another test if nitrite is 0 and my nitrates up my cycle is working. And it was an oxygen/flow thing. I’m still waiting for the power head amazon says by 9pm tonight. I took the lid off my PH went up to 8.0. So I guess it was the lid. No air. No flow. No gas exchange. I kept the lid on to stop evap because the AC is never off in the house but I guess that just made things worst lol. That lid has no cutouts it’s just a big plastic square with crappy LEDs on it covers the entire thing even the filter. I think I’ll have my friend 3D print one but make the whole thing mesh and it’ll fit perfectly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The orange copepod things tho. Don’t they turn from grey to orange when theirs a lack of oxygen? Maybe I suffocated everything [emoji23] the lid was tight the only water movement was the stock return pump which didn’t even disturb my sand bed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nuking it crossed my mind but I didn’t wanna wash the sand lol. Non scented pure clear ammonia before. Now I have the one dr Tims sells ammonia chlor-something. As for the hermits. I put the rock in aug 30th? They came out like two days after and went to work on the rock. Then I started giving a pellet to keep them fed. One died yesterday. And the other 3 died today. I removed the bodies whole. But yesterday I woke up to the sand bed littered in big orange pods. But no ammo or trite spikes. That was the first thing I thought of. This is why I’m so confused. My next step is do nothing. For the next few weeks besides top off fresh water lol. Maybe I’ll save the dr tims one and only when I get a fish as a buffer.

Ugh my heater doesn’t go that high. So I just did a test everything’s still 0 the ph registered 7.8. Saltinity is constant. I just don’t understand how my nitrates went from 20 to 0. Purigen is good but it’s not that good lol Being the tank is devoid of all life now that I know of. I got my dr tims today. Should I put a cap full and some of that ammonia it comes with and see what it registers tomorrow? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was feeding them shrimp pellets every other day. But anyway their all dead now. Im gonna do a water test when I get home and hopefully something registers. I don’t have a copper kit but maybe reef escape can check a water sample for me for copper. Next question. I remember reading about turning up the heater to accelerate any parasite spores life cycles. thus killing them off because no host. Will let’s say 85-90° water temp kill my beneficial bacteria? I’m waiting on ups truck for the power head today so that’ll give more oxygen for the heated water.

Things like hermit crabs can’t get velvet or anything like that can they? Now I’m paranoid I don’t wanna go thru velvet again that was a nightmare. I mean the rock could possibly have the little cyst egg things. Ugh I’m staying Fishless til Next month. And if these hermits don’t make it I’m turning the heater up to 90 and ignoring the tank for a month. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Salinity is 1.025 temps about 77° I’m using bottled distilled water and the salt water premade from reef escape. I did have a lid on it I’m thinking gas exchange/low oxygen for the dead critters. As for why the test kit is all negative i have no idea. It’s a brand new kit. And it was showing results last week. As for copper no idea the tank was brand new in box. Maybe the rock is starting to leech out copper if it was ever exposed to it. No way of knowing that. But then again the hermits came out of it after a few days. I removed the lid and the other hermits starting moving around after about 20 mins. I ordered a small powerhead to get more oxygen in there. And put a little prime for the hermits. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I used bio spira the rocks about idk 8 lbs ish. I did pure ammonia once to see if it eats it. It ate it. And then hermits came out and I was feeding them pellets

Checking water with api kit like I always use. Everything even nitrates are all registering 0 even the ph wasn’t even a color on the chart. Last i checked the. Nitrates were 20 and the ph was 8.0. I didn’t do any water changes just fresh water top offs for evap. One of the the hitch hiker hermits died. The heck is going on with this water and theirs big dead pods everywhere. Maybe not enough oxygen idk anymore

I was there yesterday the sign said September and I couldn’t make out the numbers. Lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was just looking at that one and was about to ask. I think I’ll go with this one I was reading reviews on Amazon people really like it and their pictures look great. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What are in the 50-60 range? This one I can hang like a chandelier I guess

And that will plug in any standard lamp? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Okay so I’m doing this budget thing both lights are $30 bucks. Again its a small 5G prolly have Xenia GSP and a frogspawn. Option 1 evo clip led Includes 6 LEDs 3 watt LED 800 Lumen 4x 10000K LEDs 2x Actinic 460nm LEDs Slim and contemporary light design option 2 deep blue solar flare led 2 6500k daylight 2 10000k 1 actinic 460nm both are clip on goose necks. The evo is on eBay the solar flare is at reef escape in Fairfax.

Hi all. Thanks for welcoming me back

Ugh why am I so dumb I forgot filter media is a nitrate factory. Need to pull that one out it’s probably disgusting from the live sand storm

Thanks. I actually used everything he showed lol. I got the nitrates down to 20 this morning. Then dosed 1PPM liquid ammonia. I just checked everything ammonia is 0 nitrite is 0 nitrates I can’t make out between the 20 and 40 mark. But the bacteria is definitely doing it’s job in about idk 16 hours or so. Everything seems healthy. One of the hitch hiker hermits actually molted today. I thought it died then I seen all were accounted for. And I have lots of pods. Big ones actually. I have a Chinese LED coming in tomorrow if it’s strong enough I wanna try a softie. Xenia or GSP those things are bullet proof.

Oh. I didn’t know that worked on salt water I used to do that with fresh water. Turn it up to 90 and a lot of air stones lol. Will do. Thanks again. I managed to drop them to 20 today I’m gonna leave it alone I’m scared lol

Hey tom. Thanks. I have no problems with water changes being it’s such a small tank. But will i stall the cycle or cause mini cycles by doing many or large WC? I’ve never had nitrates this high. I Just don’t want it stacking up on me to where I’m going crazy trying to control it

Uhhh August 30th I think?. I’m not gonna add any animals yet I just wanna get these nitrates down, I pulled out a gallon because that’s all I had already made and stored.

Okay I got my kit today. PH 8.0 Ammonia 0 nitrite 0. Nitrates really freakin high it’s 80PP water is distilled cover says it’s gone thru RODI process. Used instant ocean salt mix. i used cured live rock with all kinds of critters in it live sand and bio spira and dosed a little too much pure ammonia but it ate it over night. I think im cycled? Its a 5 gallon. Probably 3 from the rocks. How many gallons you guys think I should pull out to lower that nitrate. Theirs no livestock besides the hermits that cameout of the rock.

I don’t know the kelvin this is all the disc says Full Spectrum: Cool White,Green,Red,Blue Worldwide Voltage : AC85~265V View Angle of LEDs: 60 degree lenses Working Temperature: -20~40 degree centigrade Life span:20000 hours Wattage: 27W (9LEDs) its going going on a 5 gallon and comes with a remote. You can dim 0-100%. And control each color light. Think it’ll handle frogspawn and some softies like GSP and pulsing Xenia? It’s on sale for practically nothing. Yes i know still cycling but if it’s a good light for $17 bucks why not. I really want another AI prime but their still expensive even older models.

Wow I love that. It’s so clean and sleek.

Thanks. So their not diatoms. They’re those little crustation things that stick to the glass and build shells. I can’t remember the name I was only concerned about killing the diatoms and causing a huge spike and killing whatever’s in the rock. But so far so good I’m seeing things growing even if their pests lol 4 little hermit crabs came out of hiding today. I guess they were inside the rock theirs a huge hole in it. God knows what else is in there

i tried googling it didn’t get any answers. If I black the tank out to kill the diatoms forming on my back wall which is white. Will their death cause ammonia spikes? No livestock. Tanks only been running 3 days. I think their diatoms theirs more today then their was last night. And my eyes aren’t what they used to be. Maybe hitch hikers those little swirl shell thingys?. I can’t seem to get a good pic my cameras not very good. I do not have a test kit yet but I’m not using food for ammonia. and I used RODI water. the rock I used came from a display case at LFS