Corals sucking up the nitrates

[babajuju]

I’ve been in the ringer with my 5g all in one recently. My fish store gave me salt water at 26ppm. And it killed my cleaner shrimp and nearly my torch and other corals(tank at this time was reading 32ppm). Got it back to its correct state and corals still weren’t happy. Realized they were sucking up all the nitrates. Now I have to feed everyday to keep up. But I don’t want phosphates or another algae outbreak. Should I just dose nitrates. They go from happy to unhappy quickly cuz I can’t keep up.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I’ve been in the ringer with my 5g all in one recently. My fish store gave me salt water at 26ppm. And it killed my cleaner shrimp and nearly my torch and other corals(tank at this time was reading 32ppm). Got it back to its correct state and corals still weren’t happy. Realized they were sucking up all the nitrates. Now I have to feed everyday to keep up. But I don’t want phosphates or another algae outbreak. Should I just dose nitrates. They go from happy to unhappy quickly cuz I can’t keep up.

How are you testing for nitrates? Often nitrates are blames when its actually the phosphates. Biological imbalances will also alter nitrate numbers

 

[babajuju]

I use the api test kits and then I use Hanna for salinity and temp

 

[Troylee]

Tank barely looks cycled and no fish?

 

[RichReef]

I suspect you may be going through a mini cycle. Some beneficial bacteria may have died off.

Cleaner shrimp are always the first to go when salinity gets too far off.

 

[babajuju]

Tank barely looks cycled and no fish?

Tank has cycled twice, and had an algae bloom. It’s about two months old. Percula, two nassarius, and one margarita(used to have cleaner shrimp). Torch, frammer, acan, chalice, leptastria.

 

[babajuju]

I suspect you may be going through a mini cycle. Some beneficial bacteria may have died off.

Cleaner shrimp are always the first to go when salinity gets too far off.

Since the two cycles nitrites and ammonia have been zero the entire process.

 

[babajuju]

This is what it looks like right now