Need advice made a mistake!

Lisa Cain · Sep 23, 2018

I have a 90 gallon aquarium that currently has a diatom bloom.

The Ammonia is reading .25ppm or a little less with the API Kit
The nitrite is reading .25ppm
The Nitrates are about 20 ppm

I put in 6o lbs of live sand, live rock, enough bio sphere for 75 gallons, some of the water from my established 35 gallon biocube, I am running one HD Prime and I have ordered another. The tank has been cycling for 10 days

I did something that I should not have done. Two days ago I put in a green chromis, who is doing wonderful. I also put in a brain coral that is doing supper wonderful and a polyp.

Well today I was in the pet store and I saw a beautiful blue tang on a wonderful sale. I purchased it. I said I would put it in my 32 gallon biocube for a few days and then transfer to my new tank..

When I got home my other fish and two corals were doing so well in the 90 that I put in the the blue tang. I fed it and about 3 hours later checked the water and I have the reading above.

Should I remove him and pt him in the 32 gallon biocube?

I realize that I should have waited.

I have a chemipure and purigen filter that I have not used but should I wait ot put it in the tank. Shoud I simply let nature take its course?

Fishnut · Sep 23, 2018

It would move everything back to the 32. The tank is still in it's cycle and may poison everything before it balances out. Not worth putting your animals through that. Think about a QT for your fish. Hate to hear that the Tang introduced ich to your new tank.

Lisa Cain · Sep 23, 2018

Thank you to excited to anxious. Will my tang fight with the clownfish since the biocube is so small. I also have a sailfin in the 32. Do you think theywill fight?

Fishnut · Sep 23, 2018

Re-arrange all the rock work in the Bio-cube this should help cut down on aggression. Hopefully your fish are small.

saltyfilmfolks · Sep 23, 2018

Keep putting in bottled bacteria.

lapin · Sep 23, 2018

You might think about having 50 gallons of water ready to go, if you need to do a water change. If things go south.

Softhammer · Sep 23, 2018

SLOW DOWN. take the fish back if you can. You are months away frown painless stocking. Everything bad happens fast. Nothing good does. 10 days is zero cycle time, all the potions in the world won’t fix this. Until the “blooms” stop and coralline grows, slow your roll. Spend the money to properly equip now. It will save you thousands in lost livestock later.

Lisa Cain · Sep 23, 2018

Thanks to all of you! for your replies

vetteguy53081 · Sep 23, 2018

sounds like you are on Impulse and moving quickly. Yes, utilize the 32 gal and NO MORE Anything BUT WATER CHANGES FOR the next couple of months and time spent on R2R forums watching what others are doing and reading the EMERGENCY topics daily to see how others approach various situations.

Powder blue and clown should do well together

JumboShrimp · Sep 23, 2018

Just a gentle reinforcement... If you want to blow through a lot of money and heap on needless aggravation, do what I did: Do everything fast [wrong]. Then slow it down the second time [better]. Then finally realize that you need to slow “slow” down by another 50%, and that all that talk about “patience” you’ve read and heard about was spot-on from the beginning. (Just ask me how many times I’ve already had to -re-quarantine and go fallow due to Marine Velvet! Uggg!!) Best wishes!