MichaelsLilGray
Aquarium Advice FINatic
he can use the liverock he got from the ocean.. its just the bit used was rather uncured..
sorry i dont know all the shortcuts you guys use. whats RO and SG? im pretty sure the hydrometer works exact. right now its on 1.024 from the mix of the ocean water and the drinking water i mixed a few days ago. i didnt changed anything until then. the original ocean water have 1.027. i still have a cube here next to the aquarium.
Don't get me wrong....Use the Sea water for water changes for sure, but use Tap or RO water to replace evaporated water from your tank. The water evaporates, not the salt. So If you replace evaported water with Sea Water your tank will get saltier as you add more sea water to refill your tank.ah no. i made a huge waterchange again a few days ago this time with original ocean saltwater and i just added drinking water (im sick of the tab water) to adjust the SG.
From now on im planning to refill with ocean water only and to leave it at 1.027 how i get it for the future.
...but here it looks like first they are totally fine and after 12-24 hours they seem not to be able to breath anymore and turn really dark and either go to the top of the water or to the bottom and get more and more weak ntil they finally die. can that really be the shock from hours before? i would be happy if so but it just seems like to me its something else but the water is fine like that how it is. at least no reason to die..
Still don't think the tank ever cycled. But it doesn't seem like you're wanting to consider that possibility. If you never saw ammonia, but did see nitrite (and continue to see it today), then something is wrong with a test kit somewhere. You don't get one without the other. Fish gasping for breath, losing color... sure sounds like ammonia poisoning to me.