Cycle issue or disease issue, help diagnose

[brandon429]

PLEASE HELP! Ammonia, nitrites and clownfish

Hey everyone, new to all of this, has my tank going for a bit now and when my ammonia spiked (1.0) the LFS tested it numerous times and when everything settled back down to zero they said it would be okay to add 2 clowns and 2 hermit crabs, however now the ammonia spiked again up to 2.0, it's...

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please evaluate that post, rule out disease as a causative.

I know we are all still on api and Red Sea ammonia assessment, asking for seneye ammonia is asking too much they’re not popular enough yet. So even if you believe a reef tank can fail to control ammonia weeks after cycle is done, with some fish living just fine day to day while others die, meaning you’ll never doubt what a non seneye ammonia test says, pls comment on ruling out fish disease altogether here.


*how can she best position current fish to live and not follow suit? Daily additions of prime for the coming weeks?

 

[brandon429]

I had posted a thread here a while back that fell down no response and it asks for help for tanks like this above: what is the max fish stocking you can skip fallow and qt preps and still have strong likelihood outcome?

for example, new nano reefer buys two healthy clowns and a goby, what’s the chances those fish make it long term healthy?

next example: six Bartlett anthias, a rabbitfish, two tangs, a small eel, clowns and a goby all go into a large volume totally cycled tank with no fallow no qt


how are both of those reefs fairing in six months?