Ok I have had my new tank set up for about 3 weeks now. It's a 90 gallon bowfront. Anyway when I had it all set up I added 50 lbs of cured live rock and then about 25 lbs of rock from my existing tank. The rest was going to go in this weekend. Anyway all test have been good the entire time, Ni-0, Na-0, Ammn-0 So two days ago I put in my two clownfish from the other system. Prior to this I added some snails and hermits and one cucumber. Tonight I found the cucumber dead. My nitrates are still 0, my ammonia is still 0, but my nitrites have jumped up to .50. Anyone know what could have caused this. Am I going through another cycle? Should I get everything back in my old tank ASAP?
Help!!
- Thread starter Roach
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sure seems like you have something rotting away. check and count your snails and smell them if necessary. When you smell them you WILL know if they are dead or not.
cucs can usually handle nitrite pretty well, you may have gotten a weak specimen. give your tank a lil bit more time to stablish, i think you are rushing things.
be patient.
Good things take a long time to achieve, bad things happen really fast
[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: wnfaknd ]</p>
cucs can usually handle nitrite pretty well, you may have gotten a weak specimen. give your tank a lil bit more time to stablish, i think you are rushing things.
be patient.
Good things take a long time to achieve, bad things happen really fast
[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: wnfaknd ]</p>
Well I was kinda under the assumption that my tank wouldn't cycle because I used cured rock that sat in my tank for two weeks before anything else went into it and I also added a bunch of rock from my other tank. How long should I have waited to put in the clean up crew?
Try something.
Take out a couple pieces of rocks, SMELL them. Most likely the rocks are not fully cured. Even if they "claimed" it is cured, from their holding tank to your home, something must've died. Whatever it is, it's rotting slowly.
In most places, what they do to "cure" the rocks is simply put them on shelves/racks and mist spray with saltwater. Only a few places that I know of submerge the rocks in circulating water to cure. Most simply sprayed for a couple weeks and mark them as "cured".........another gimick of trade.
This is also the reason people would want to buy "raw" LR and do the curing themselves in the tank. Stuff is going to die during shipping anyway.
Good luck, HTH
Take out a couple pieces of rocks, SMELL them. Most likely the rocks are not fully cured. Even if they "claimed" it is cured, from their holding tank to your home, something must've died. Whatever it is, it's rotting slowly.
In most places, what they do to "cure" the rocks is simply put them on shelves/racks and mist spray with saltwater. Only a few places that I know of submerge the rocks in circulating water to cure. Most simply sprayed for a couple weeks and mark them as "cured".........another gimick of trade.
This is also the reason people would want to buy "raw" LR and do the curing themselves in the tank. Stuff is going to die during shipping anyway.
Good luck, HTH
I'm pretty sure the rock is not the problem. I am really good friends with the owner at the LFS. He has two huge horse feeding troughs(sp) that he submerges the rock in. I have helped him do the whole process before. The other half of the rock is straight out of my existing tank. My only guess is that a couple of snail finally died after their journey from Pet Warehouse. Does anyone reccomend using cycle to help with the nitrite spike?
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