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Hammer70 · 07/08/2018, 06:19 AM

I just recently inherited a 30 gallon salt water tank and am having trouble getting the water quality right. The person who I inherited it from wasn't in the best of health so I don't think the water quality was great when we got it. To move the tank we had to remove lots of the water, about 80%. We've had it for about a month now and the ammonia, nitrate and nitrite levels are still really high. We've used XTreme Microbe Lift and Microbe Lift Nite Out II to try to help matter, but it really hasn't helped. I've done several water changes anywhere from a 10% to 50%. When we got it there was a biowheel filtration system and we kept that original biowheel and added a Fluvial canister filter for a 45 gallon tank about 2 weeks ago.

The tank has a 6 line Wrasse, a blue devil damsel, a maroon clown and a banded coral shrimp. We also had a star serpent but he died about 2 weeks ago. We've added no fish, they were the ones already in the tank when we got it. The only thing we added was a piece of dry coral.

Any help is appreciated.

John

07/08/2018, 06:19 AM	#1
Hammer70 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2018 Posts: 3	Problems getting water chemistry right I just recently inherited a 30 gallon salt water tank and am having trouble getting the water quality right. The person who I inherited it from wasn't in the best of health so I don't think the water quality was great when we got it. To move the tank we had to remove lots of the water, about 80%. We've had it for about a month now and the ammonia, nitrate and nitrite levels are still really high. We've used XTreme Microbe Lift and Microbe Lift Nite Out II to try to help matter, but it really hasn't helped. I've done several water changes anywhere from a 10% to 50%. When we got it there was a biowheel filtration system and we kept that original biowheel and added a Fluvial canister filter for a 45 gallon tank about 2 weeks ago. The tank has a 6 line Wrasse, a blue devil damsel, a maroon clown and a banded coral shrimp. We also had a star serpent but he died about 2 weeks ago. We've added no fish, they were the ones already in the tank when we got it. The only thing we added was a piece of dry coral. Any help is appreciated. John