Long story short, my one dottyback and cleaner shrimp started acting sluggish. I checked the chemistry and found out my nitrates and ammonia were *way* high. I’ve since done a water change a day of about 15% for a week. I also added a HOB filter to the side of my tank to go with the main filter...
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lets watch unfold based on ramblings above
they report high ammonia, thats instantly accepted as true from all readers when it’s posted, name brand of the test kit doesn’t matter. two clues in the descrip tells me otherwise regarding ammonia... let’s see when it all unfolds.
this is my breakdown even before we get any other details:
anyone who owns that many fish and a cleaner shrimp has a system with at least rocks and more than likely sand owing to any post on any forum for those animals in a glass tank. In any combo, that’s enough surface area to run a reef tank and feed it daily and it stay alive with something as delicate as a lysmata if that’s what he has, tbd.
if he were dealing with an uncycled tank, none of those would be alive now they’d be all dead. Uncycled tanks cannot control life, it dies, in about two days max or sooner.
we already know from intense cycling studies lol there are no half cycles
we are either cycled, and can keep a bioload, or we aren’t cycled, and can’t, there’s no mid ground of half cycle. He’s got a cycled reef. no reefs fail to control ammonia post-cycle barring exceptional events and nothing exceptional has been posted.
ergo, he has no ammonia issue though he reports one and he needs to read up on fallow and qt.
im measuring his ammonia by his statements but whatever he states about the test kit level won’t factor.
unless it’s a tuned seneye them I’m all ears with the notepad out. But it’s not though taking bets on api
