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8 litres out. 

Post water change parameters 

AMmonia: <0.25ppm 

Nitrites: 0.25ppm 

Nitrates: 5-10ppm

pH: 7.8

kH: 11 

Temp: 25/26°c 

Sg: 1.025 

Tank still hot. Left lid open for now.....

Haven't added anymore ammonia. I was going to but the pre wc parameters make me think it's not necessary....? 

 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, InAtTheDeepEnd said:

8 litres out. 

Post water change parameters 

AMmonia: <0.25ppm 

Nitrites: 0.25ppm 

Nitrates: 5-10ppm

pH: 7.8

kH: 11 

Temp: 25/26°c 

Sg: 1.025 

Tank still hot. Left lid open for now.....

Haven't added anymore ammonia. I was going to but the pre wc parameters make me think it's not necessary....? 

 

 

 

 

Nope that's done.. leave it 24hrs and test again.. there will be no ammonia tomorrow then a BIG water change to get nitrates down.. the CUC. 

 

Told you didn't I??, I don't owe you that free first fish now 👍🏼🤣

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16 minutes ago, InAtTheDeepEnd said:

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This picture I read as done.. cycled. 

 

Though salinity is to high, swap out half a cup of saltwater for RO, your refractometer is saying 1.027 to me. Target 1.026 or 1.025

 

EDIT: Just for fun. And to compare here's mine, notice how empty this beer bottle is becoming, might need a change in that as well!!🤣

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26 minutes ago, InAtTheDeepEnd said:

I keep looking here too but it doesn't say how much you actually receive.....https://coralz.co.uk/

£4 a frag seems almost too good to be true

That looks like a single polyp as it asks how many you want. So £4 a head. That's about right. A Rasta is going to cost about £8 a head, a utter chaos around £10.  

 

For first coral I would get a rock of Radio Active or space invaders or something like that as they are very quick to multiply. You can have 4 or 5 new polyps every couple of weeks at peak growth from a small frag. 

 

My collection so far is: 

Radio Active, Blue Hornets, Rastas, Bullseye, Kryptonite, Alien invasion, Red People Eater, Green Implosion, Utter Chaos

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Hmmmfffffff where has that ammonia come from? 🤔 maybe killed off some pods doing the water change, is that plausible?

 

No nitrites anymore though. Going to have to be *slooooow* stocking this, it's temperamental as hell 😆 nitrates weren't as high as the pic makes them look though, more like 10ppm. pH seems to fluctuate through the day as well between brown/yellow on the high range test and about 7.8. but it matches with changes in the ammonia level and the presence of unionised ammonia will change pH I suppose.

 

Oh and for some reason the temp goes back up to 26°c unless I have the lid open at all times. Which I don't want to do. Hope 26°c won't cook anything. 

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That done seem right to me. Was zero. No ammonia added after a 33% water change. 

I can't see it being pods. And unless that tank has something rotting in it, I can't see how ammonia would rise in such short order on its own. Re do the test I think.  

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If you see reports of flooding on the news today pay it no mind.... It'll just be me crying over WTF is going on in this tank!!!!

 

No water change. 

Ammonia: 0.5ppm(???) Or potentially even higher

Nitrites: 0.25ppm 

Nitrates: 10ppm

 

Why is the ammonia RISING when nothings been added 😭😭😭😭

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26 minutes ago, InAtTheDeepEnd said:

If you see reports of flooding on the news today pay it no mind.... It'll just be me crying over WTF is going on in this tank!!!!

 

No water change. 

Ammonia: 0.5ppm(???) Or potentially even higher

Nitrites: 0.25ppm 

Nitrates: 10ppm

 

Why is the ammonia RISING when nothings been added 😭😭😭😭

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Give your glass bottles a good clean out in hot water then rinse in tank water. API tubes are terrible for getting clean. I must say that's odd.. if it was just the ammonia I would say it's the test kit but the nitrite API is usually solid. 

 

Ammonia can only go up if it has a source, is rotten food, dead animal, ghost feeding the tank or dosing ammonia.. the rock was dead white base rock wasn't it?

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First of all just snails..... Was gonna do just 1 nassarius but saw trochus in lfs and thought they were cool too so 1 of each to start with. Snails are great imho. 

If that's not enough cuc add blue legged hermit and cerith down the line. One of everything basically 😂

 

 

 

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