janussolutions Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 After 5 months of good water quality, overnight my ammonia spiked to around 0.35ppm, and my nitrate was 0ppm, so I changed 5 gallons of water. Today my ammonia was 0 and my nitrate was up to 15ppm so I changed another 5 gallons. I have a 24 Aquapod Fish 2 clowns 1 cardinal 1 fire fish (goby) 1 diamond goby Invertebrates 3 astrea snails 5 hermit crabs 1 Mexican turbo Coral 2 ricodeas 1 pipe organ 1 fiji leather 1 torch coral Xenia Zoas I run a skimmer and poly fiber floss as my filter along with chemipure elite and purigen; change 5 gallons of water once a week and feed 1/3 of a cube of mysis shrimp. The only changes I have made to my tank within the last couple of days prior the incident were the addition of a jbj 1/15 chiller and I changed the to 120 watts power compact lights. Can you help me to figure this thing out? Thank you Link to comment
janussolutions Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 bump!! Your help is appreciated Link to comment
janussolutions Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 Nope Every single member of the tank is accounted for, I never had algae problems or anything weird happening 'til Saturday evening after I added the chiller, do you think that triggered a micro cycle? Link to comment
janussolutions Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 nope was brand spanking new, got it for 240 Link to comment
janussolutions Posted June 17, 2009 Author Share Posted June 17, 2009 Ok It looks like the chiller was the factor at fault of triggering a short cycle, today all water tests came back with 0 Link to comment
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