mobman
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hey guys here are some details: I converted my freshwater aquarium to a saltwater aquarium about 2 months ago without researching (or not researching it fully) and ended up messing up my water conditions to a point of complete toxication (my lion has forgiving me a lot of times but this time It was really bad, he is in qt right now). I still had the original gravel from the freshwater aquarium which I did not take out. The result: PH dropped below 5.0!!! Nitrate levels were over 80 ppm and so on. I proceeded with buying about 25 pounds of live sand and a dead coral decoration as someone told me it would help. Then I did a major water change of about 50% of the 55 gal tank. First day of water change...everything was great, the PH was up to 8.3 and everything looked fine. Only yesterday the Nitrite level were over 100 ppm, nitrates were over 60 ppm and PH was about 7.2....What happend here??? Please help. I need to put the lion back in the main tank but how can I really stabalize the water conditions and maintain it correctly? Any tips of ideas would be deeply appreciated.