AkainePSP
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I had a 30 gallon saltwater tank with good water quality. I recently purchased a 20 gallon tank with excellent water quality (we saved all of the water) as well and about 30lb of rock. Well what I have done is combined the 2 tanks and put everything into my 44 gallon corner tank. So now I have about 50lbs of rock, a 3-4" crushed coral and sand bed. I originally had 2 small damsels, so those were already in the 44 gallon tank.
Yesterday I went to the pet store and purchased 1 scarlet reef, 4 Nassasarius (sp) snails, 2 turbo snails, 3 what the lady called brown hermit crabs, not sure that I've heard of these, 1 brittle star and a mandarin.
I did a water test this morning and these are my readings.
PH 8.2
Ammonia .50
Nitrite .50
Nitrate 5.0
Salinty 1.022
Are these water quality changes due to the combining of the 2 tanks or adding all of the new creatures or possibly both? I'm thinking I should have waited a few days before adding anything new.
Should I do some water changes or leave things as they are. The test kit says to use some stress zyme but I really don't want to add any chemicals if its not neccessary. I would like things to work themselves out naturally.
Thanks.
Kelly
Yesterday I went to the pet store and purchased 1 scarlet reef, 4 Nassasarius (sp) snails, 2 turbo snails, 3 what the lady called brown hermit crabs, not sure that I've heard of these, 1 brittle star and a mandarin.
I did a water test this morning and these are my readings.
PH 8.2
Ammonia .50
Nitrite .50
Nitrate 5.0
Salinty 1.022
Are these water quality changes due to the combining of the 2 tanks or adding all of the new creatures or possibly both? I'm thinking I should have waited a few days before adding anything new.
Should I do some water changes or leave things as they are. The test kit says to use some stress zyme but I really don't want to add any chemicals if its not neccessary. I would like things to work themselves out naturally.
Thanks.
Kelly