My New Reef
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calcium problem
hi guys. its been a while. moved house a few weeks ago and moved tank succesfully. while moving lost my 2 shrimps because tank was neglected at old house.
female clown got stressed and developed white spot so bad and her mouth was been eaten away by a fungus. sent her to pet shop to be medicated. she is back and bullying the male like hell. not allowing him near the bubble tip nenni at all. nenni also got stressed. not opening up full as it used to.
thinking about getting another nenni for the male clown as he is now been bullied by all the inmates, even my goldi is troubling him.
comments about keeping 2 nennis please.
anyways, also i could not find tropic marine bio calcium anywhere. went to jullies who used to keep it and he gave me via aqua calcium. since i been using it everything been going wrong. calcium spiked to over 800. stopped adding for a while and started upping the kalk. didnt work. did major water changes and still did not bring it down. last week did another 45lt water change. reading is at 600 or so. got green algae and cyana growing. ammonia is normal, nitrate and nitrite is 0. phostate also zero. magnesium is at normal levels. temp constant as i have a chiller. alk is normal as i am using a buffer everyday.
please help, anybody.
hi guys. its been a while. moved house a few weeks ago and moved tank succesfully. while moving lost my 2 shrimps because tank was neglected at old house.
female clown got stressed and developed white spot so bad and her mouth was been eaten away by a fungus. sent her to pet shop to be medicated. she is back and bullying the male like hell. not allowing him near the bubble tip nenni at all. nenni also got stressed. not opening up full as it used to.
thinking about getting another nenni for the male clown as he is now been bullied by all the inmates, even my goldi is troubling him.
comments about keeping 2 nennis please.
anyways, also i could not find tropic marine bio calcium anywhere. went to jullies who used to keep it and he gave me via aqua calcium. since i been using it everything been going wrong. calcium spiked to over 800. stopped adding for a while and started upping the kalk. didnt work. did major water changes and still did not bring it down. last week did another 45lt water change. reading is at 600 or so. got green algae and cyana growing. ammonia is normal, nitrate and nitrite is 0. phostate also zero. magnesium is at normal levels. temp constant as i have a chiller. alk is normal as i am using a buffer everyday.
please help, anybody.
Mekaeel
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Mo, sorry I cant help you with the first part as my knowledge on nennies is pathetic.
With a Ca level of 800, you wouldnt see anything in your tank, you will have a snowstorm. Cross check with another test kit.
Please give me your correct Ph, Ca, Mg, and Alk reading.
Algae will only grow if Phosphates are presents. It might not show up on your test kit as the algae is feeding on the phosphates. Run some Tunze Quick phos to drop rid of that algae issues.
hi. checked my reading this weekend.
salinaity - 1.25
ph - 8.2
below using red sea kit:
alk - 0 - 1.6 (low)
amonia - .25
no3 - 5 - 25
no2 - 0.1
cal by sera kit - 800
po4 by eos kit - 0
mg by eos - 850
i find it strange that my nitrate and nitrite readings are up again. can anyone explain.
salinaity - 1.25
ph - 8.2
below using red sea kit:
alk - 0 - 1.6 (low)
amonia - .25
no3 - 5 - 25
no2 - 0.1
cal by sera kit - 800
po4 by eos kit - 0
mg by eos - 850
i find it strange that my nitrate and nitrite readings are up again. can anyone explain.