RedzaRamzan
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Hello everybody!
My name is Red, new to the whole saltwater game. Previously had a bunch of different freshwater setups over the span of like 6 years (mostly Iwagumi aquascapes). After a whole lot of research and stalking some posts here, decided to share my setup 45cm tank (something like 8 US Gallons). So far i've been following multiple nano set up tutorials and things have been going well. The tank is going thru its 2nd week of cycle, but i've got a few worries and kinda need some advice with it. But tank shots first!
Excuse the aquascape, still got my freshwater habits! Its a 45cm x 28cm x 25cm low-iron glass tank (that clear stuff). The rock is just dead live rock that someone was selling online locally (I live in Malaysia) and i bleached it over a few days ish and let it dry. I use 4-stage filtered tap water for it with some AquaForest Reef salt. Added it to the tank and put in some Seachem Stability following the instructions. I let it run for the first week without touching it, just topping off manually every now and then. But I started testing a week-ish ago just to keep an eye on the cycle and the ammonia/nitrite spikes.
TL;DR - The problem
I use API to test everything and I didnt see a significant ammonia spike (maybe missed it in the first week), and now the nitrite is high and when i recently tested the nitrate, it dropped down a little bit (From my understanding, it should go up, then algae starts growing wild), PH is also dropping a little, but dKH is going up? Is something going wrong? Should I just wait it out and keep testing it and see what happens? Or should i expect a decrease in nitrite over the next few days? Should i be worried that all these parameters are bouncing like a ball? Below is the exported record i keep on my AquaNote app.
(Side note : Its super hard for me to read the Nitrite test. The purple between 5-1ppm is all the same to me..)
Any help is much appreciated! Thank you everyone! And glad to be a part of this community!!!
My name is Red, new to the whole saltwater game. Previously had a bunch of different freshwater setups over the span of like 6 years (mostly Iwagumi aquascapes). After a whole lot of research and stalking some posts here, decided to share my setup 45cm tank (something like 8 US Gallons). So far i've been following multiple nano set up tutorials and things have been going well. The tank is going thru its 2nd week of cycle, but i've got a few worries and kinda need some advice with it. But tank shots first!
Excuse the aquascape, still got my freshwater habits! Its a 45cm x 28cm x 25cm low-iron glass tank (that clear stuff). The rock is just dead live rock that someone was selling online locally (I live in Malaysia) and i bleached it over a few days ish and let it dry. I use 4-stage filtered tap water for it with some AquaForest Reef salt. Added it to the tank and put in some Seachem Stability following the instructions. I let it run for the first week without touching it, just topping off manually every now and then. But I started testing a week-ish ago just to keep an eye on the cycle and the ammonia/nitrite spikes.
TL;DR - The problem
I use API to test everything and I didnt see a significant ammonia spike (maybe missed it in the first week), and now the nitrite is high and when i recently tested the nitrate, it dropped down a little bit (From my understanding, it should go up, then algae starts growing wild), PH is also dropping a little, but dKH is going up? Is something going wrong? Should I just wait it out and keep testing it and see what happens? Or should i expect a decrease in nitrite over the next few days? Should i be worried that all these parameters are bouncing like a ball? Below is the exported record i keep on my AquaNote app.
(Side note : Its super hard for me to read the Nitrite test. The purple between 5-1ppm is all the same to me..)
Any help is much appreciated! Thank you everyone! And glad to be a part of this community!!!
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