Tank crashing??

[ians pico]

Hey guys I need some help, I did my weekly feeding two nights ago, some mysis shrimp to my corals with a tiny amount of reef roids. Usually my feedings are simple and I have trained my blenny to feed first in a specific spot, while he’s Busy I will spot feed my corals. Well This time the blenny finished all of his food quick then continued to steal all of the other food from each coral. After the feeding I did my normal weekly water change. I woke up in the morning to my blenny dead, nothing else in the tank is dead but my hammer coral is not looking good. I checked my water parameters yesterday:
Ammonia 2 ppm
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0?!?
Phosphates .25
Calcium 420
Dkh 214

 

[Reefer5640]

Salinity, temp?

 

[Brian_68]

You should not have ammonia in a mature or cycled tank and that level is toxic. How old is it?

 

[11f150]

Sounds like a pretty new tank if you have 2ppm ammonia

 

[Reefer5640]

I agree with the other two, you shouldn’t be seeing ammonia but what caused the ammonia? Sounds like nothing out of the norm for your routine. You said you saw the blenny dead in the morning but you also said you tested yesterday. Did you test after you found the dead blenny and all this happened yesterday? Or did you find the blenny this morning? What I’m trying to get at is: did you by chance overfeed by accident and the bio filter wasn’t established enough to handle it or did something bigger happen like a mechanical failure to a heater or something and the ammonia is the aftermath of the blenny dying. Either way the tank shouldn’t be at that high of ammonia. I’d do water changes to get it down. Sorry to hear about your situation. That sucks…

 

[Harold999]

If you don't know that 2ppm ammonia is heavily toxic you shouldn't have a reeftank. You have a lot of reading to do.

 

[ians pico]

Salinity, temp?

Salinity is at 1.024 temp stays steady at 77°

 

[ians pico]

If you don't know that 2ppm ammonia is heavily toxic you shouldn't have a reeftank. You have a lot of reading to do.

This was the most least helpful comment I’ve ever seen on reef2reef. Thank you

 

[ians pico]

Sounds like a pretty new tank if you have 2ppm ammoniaI set the tank up 3 months ago. It went through a cycle for 5 weeks and after the 5th week I hit 0 amm 0 ites and I did a water change to get down to 10 ates.

 

[ians pico]

You should not have ammonia in a mature or cycled tank and that level is toxic. How old is it?

3 months since day 1, 5 weeks since my cycle finished

 

[Chrisv.]

What's currently in the tank and how large is the tank?

 

[reeftankdude]

New to the hobby. What if the OP would do a fifty percent water change and add a bottle of Fritz 900? Would that help?

 

[DE FISH]

0 nitrate is no good need to have at a minimum a reading of 1 mg/l in my opinion. Also po4 is fairly high what you using to test with ?

 

[Ergot]

If you don't know that 2ppm ammonia is heavily toxic you shouldn't have a reeftank. You have a lot of reading to do.

man, imagine if there was someone like you on your heels anytime you messed something up or missed something.

If you don’t know how to be kind, don’t bother trying to help people. You’ve got a lot of growing up to do.

 

[DE FISH]

man, imagine if there was someone like you on your heels anytime you messed something up or missed something.

If you don’t know how to be kind, don’t bother trying to help people. You’ve got a lot of growing up to do.

Oooooo salty!!! Nitrate shouldn’t be zero what test kits you using and how you measuring salinity ?

 

[ians pico]

I agree with the other two, you shouldn’t be seeing ammonia but what caused the ammonia? Sounds like nothing out of the norm for your routine. You said you saw the blenny dead in the morning but you also said you tested yesterday. Did you test after you found the dead blenny and all this happened yesterday? Or did you find the blenny this morning? What I’m trying to get at is: did you by chance overfeed by accident and the bio filter wasn’t established enough to handle it or did something bigger happen like a mechanical failure to a heater or something and the ammonia is the aftermath of the blenny dying. Either way the tank shouldn’t be at that high of ammonia. I’d do water changes to get it down. Sorry to hear about your situation. That sucks…

I woke up to find the blenny dead and that’s when I tested my water parameters. All of this happened Saturday (yesterday) the photos are from Sunday (today)

 

[11f150]

What did you cycle with? Did you add anything that would cause an ammonia spike? Any new rock? Anything die in the tank that you didnt remove?

 

[ians pico]

Oooooo salty!!! Nitrate shouldn’t be zero what test kits you using and how you measuring salinity ?

Oooooo salty!!! Nitrate shouldn’t be zero what test kits you using and how you measuring salini

Oooooo salty!!! Nitrate shouldn’t be zero what test kits you using and how you measuring salinity ?

I used api reed test kit to test for nitrates phosphates calcium and kh and a refractometer to test salinity.

 

[ians pico]

Oooooo salty!!! Nitrate shouldn’t be zero what test kits you using and how you measuring salinity ?

Oooooo salty!!! Nitrate shouldn’t be zero what test kits you using and how you measuring salini

Oooooo salty!!! Nitrate shouldn’t be zero what test kits you using and how you measuring salinity ?

I used api reed test kit to test for nitrates phosphates calcium and kh and a refractometer to test salinity.

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Pay no mind to those who post without a helpful comment or understanding. This hobby has ups and downs and we all learn every day. Atleast I know I do. Doesn’t do the op any good. I’d follow @Reefer5640 advice. Good luck