Please Help Me

[tsimaskillz]

I left for four days and had family take care of the tank and I think Something happen. My Amonia was high before I left and did a 40 percent change and added some Smart start complete and did that every other day since(so about three treatments) Also fed the roids to the corals too. What is the problem? any advice please, there is a before and after.

 

[Hemmdog]

What are your parameters?

 

[Retro Reefer]

Welcome to R2R! your tank looks awfully new for all those corals and the presence of ammonia would potentially indicate it’s not full cycled.. What are you testing with?

 

[tsimaskillz]

checking tomorrow because I dont have the kit, I used it last before I left.

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

The first problem is your ammo is not zero. Back off feeding, no coral food very little fish food.

Continue water changes

 

[tsimaskillz]

The first problem is your ammo is not zero. Back off feeding, no coral food very little fish food.

Continue water changes

water changes every? how much? 10 gallon tank so about 3 gallons every two days?

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

How ever much it takes to keep ammonia at 0.

 

[bryanfuel]

water changes every? how much? 10 gallon tank so about 3 gallons every two days?

That sounds like a good start. Test for ammonia nitrite and nitrate. You should expect your nitrites to go up as your ammonia goes down. That’s a good sign and shows that your beneficial bacteria is growing. Then you should see your nitrite drop and your nitrate rise in the same way. Once your nitrite reaches 0, your cycle is complete.

Until your cycle is complete, don’t feed your coral and feed your clown fish very little once a day/once every other day.

Hopefully your coral make it through this, but you may experience some deaths. Once your cycle is complete, then you can start slowly adding coral again and feeding the coral again.

 

[tsimaskillz]

That sounds like a good start. Test for ammonia nitrite and nitrate. You should expect your nitrites to go up as your ammonia goes down. That’s a good sign and shows that your beneficial bacteria is growing. Then you should see your nitrite drop and your nitrate rise in the same way. Once your nitrite reaches 0, your cycle is complete.

Until your cycle is complete, don’t feed your coral and feed your clown fish very little once a day/once every other day.

Hopefully your coral make it through this, but you may experience some deaths. Once your cycle is complete, then you can start slowly adding coral again and feeding the coral again.

Thank you so much for the help. I think I want to go away from corals and the beauty of them. So I am trying to find a local place to take them and adopt.

 

[bryanfuel]

Thank you so much for the help. I think I want to go away from corals and the beauty of them. So I am trying to find a local place to take them and adopt.

You can definitely add coral later and there’s so easy ones for beginners . But everything in this hobby should be done slowly and you’ll have much more success that way.