Tank cycle question

[Jack Eskay]

It was about two yesterday from what I measured. Am just going to do water change. Should I be concerned jack Eskay??

No not at all, I wouldn't do a water change just leave it as is. The nitrates ore sort of the last step of the cycle. It will spike as it's doing now then go back down. I would wait until next week to add fish just to be safe. By then you should be perfect!

 

[Gravityreefing]

Hmm. I have five green chromis in the tank now and a mushroom n a two zoas. I think they should be fine now. I have coming next week a flame angel n a yellow tang n sailfin tang..may have to set up my QT now..

 

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Thanks again in advance..

 

[Jack Eskay]

Thanks again in advance..

Oh I was unaware that you already have fish in there lol then the fish in there will probably contributing to the nitrates. I would perform a water change then... how large is your tank again?

 

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The fish has been in there for a couple days now. My tank is a 180 gallons

 

[Jack Eskay]

The fish has been in there for a couple days now. My tank is a 180 gallons

Ok just making sure when you said you were getting tangs lol. But then sounds like you got everything under control. Do a water change today and keep testing until your fish are here. If you see any spikes or the nitrates continue to spike higher I would look into a quarantine for the tangs until you get it under control.
Good luck!

 

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Thanks very much for all your input and advice most appreciated.[emoji3]

 

[Gravityreefing]

Ok so I was bothered by the 5 ppm nitrate. Seems it was off by the test kit. So I used another test kit that I have n it is maybe the nitrate 1-2 ppm. Alot different from the result before. I even took it to my LFS to get another reading also. It did not make sense for all to be 00 and nitrate at 5..

 

[Jack Eskay]

Ok so I was bothered by the 5 ppm nitrate. Seems it was off by the test kit. So I used another test kit that I have n it is maybe the nitrate 1-2 ppm. Alot different from the result before. I even took it to my LFS to get another reading also. It did not make sense for all to be 00 and nitrate at 5..

Well I usually have 00 everything but nitrates which ranges from 0-5 depending on the day and when I cleaned last. So having reading for just nitrates is normal. But as for your test nitrates of 2-5 are fine, but I would be cautious is it starts getting higher.

 

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I will let you know if it does.am all over this thing lol

 

[Jack Eskay]

I will let you know if it does.am all over this thing lol

Alright, good luck with everything!!

 

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Hello all. I have a question? I know have some brown diatoms all over my rocks. For a clean up crew how much snails and hermit crabs or crabs do I need for a 180 gallon tank??

 

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Checking parameters again in a minute and possible water change today or I shouldn't do a water cahnge. I checked parameters yesterday and
Nitrate 2
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Salinity 1.025
Ph 8.2

 

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Temp 77.6