No3 spike

[Hella_Reef]

Hello,

Fish tank 3 months old today.
Added 2 frostbite clowns and 5 small frags yesterday.

Tank: Cobalt C_vue 40 gallon aio
30 ish gallons, 25lb rock

Tests as of 10 minutes ago.

Salinity 1.025 Refractometer
Dkh:8.5 Hanna
Po4 2ppb = 0.006ppm Hanna ulr

No3 salifert test kit.
2 days ago:0-5ppm hard to tell
Today, 18 hours after adding fish and coral, No3 is at 25ppm.

I know there is going to be a spike because the tank is young and will have to adjust to balancing out the new inhabitants.

Do I need to worry about the moderate spike at this time being?

I dont think a water change is needed just yet, I feel like that would throw off my tank adjusting to the new bio load.

When would I need to worry about No3 and when would you advise a w/c be in order?

Thanks

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I doubt it is nitrate that much that fast. It may be a small amount of nitrite showing as nitrate. I’d just monitor it for a couple of weeks.

 

[Hella_Reef]

I doubt it is nitrate that much that fast. It may be a small amount of nitrite showing as nitrate. I’d just monitor it for a couple of weeks.

Okay, thanks Randy

 

[Lasse]

I doubt it is nitrate that much that fast. It may be a small amount of nitrite showing as nitrate. I’d just monitor it for a couple of weeks.

Agree on that

Sincerely Lasse

 

[ckalupa]

@Hella_Reef

When you read it from the SIDE that is 1/10 (low range reading). You have 2.5.

Top down reading is the face value reading on the Salifert kit.

If you put that same vial down on the card and look from the top your coloration would fall between the 2 and the 5 (closer to the 2 in color).

 

[Hella_Reef]

@Hella_Reef

When you read it from the SIDE that is 1/10 (low range reading). You have 2.5.

Top down reading is the face value reading on the Salifert kit.

If you put that same vial down on the card and look from the top your coloration would fall between the 2 and the 5 (closer to the 2 in color).

Good to know. Thanks so much.
That relieves some worries.

 

[7237689918]

Good to know. Thanks so much.
That relieves some worries.

I think maybe I have been doing the exact same thing, thinking I was at 25.