Are my Euphyllia ok?

[BlueDiamondDiscus]

The nitrates are way to high but you can drop the value.To be honest your fish tank is ok.Can you attach a photo?

 

[malira]

I would just put in that you dont want to change anything quickly. Bringing your Alk up to 9 quickly can cause more trouble. If i were you, I'd first test my new saltwater to be sure those numbers are in line with what I'm wanting my display to be at. If they are then just keep doing your 5 gallon water changes but maybe do them 2x a week. Keep testing and making sure your parameters are climbing with each water change. You want it to be slow.

This is what needs to happen 1st. Your alk will slowly rise and your nitrates will slowly fall. Once your alk, cal and Mag come in line then you can start looking at adding reactors, if you even need them.

 

[DeniseAndy]

Agreed on the taking it slow to change things. First test your fresh saltwater to see what all the levels are. If they match seawater, then do water changes every other day at 10%. This will slowly bring values in line. If your salt is not at sealevel values, change salts!

Values you want to see on fresh saltwater (main hitters):
SG = 1.025
Nitrate = 0-2
Calcium = 420
Mag = 1350
Alk = 8DkH

 

[ou12004]

Personally if I had a poison in my tank like high nitrates and phosphates, I would get as much out as possible as quick as possible. I would change 20 up to 30% twice a week until you get to a manageable level . When I was setting up my 100 gallon tank I took out 20% of the water every other day from my 29 gallon tank to condition my new tank and the 29 was never happier. If you are not using filtered water in your salt mix it will not matter how much water you change though. If you want a more info on water changes check out http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/rhf/index.php

 

[malira]

Personally if I had a poison in my tank like high nitrates and phosphates, I would get as much out as possible as quick as possible. I would change 20 up to 30% twice a week until you get to a manageable level . When I was setting up my 100 gallon tank I took out 20% of the water every other day from my 29 gallon tank to condition my new tank and the 29 was never happier. If you are not using filtered water in your salt mix it will not matter how much water you change though. If you want a more info on water changes check out http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/rhf/index.php

I didn't even consider that.

Are you using RODI water to make your new saltwater?

 

[DeniseAndy]

If it were ammonia or nitrite or more than 100 nitrates, I would do it more quickly. However, from my experience, that nitrate number is not crazy high and adjusting the alk quicky will do more damage than good.

From studies, they have done reducing nitrates, larger water changes less often has a greater effect than smaller ones more often.

However, IMO, you are trying to stablize, I would do it slowly. This is because your alk is out of wack, not the nitrate. If you think about the way people try to combat low alk, they add Kalk to top off water, not dump it in once a week.