hi everyone,
I need information on what to do after a crash,
tank data:
fully cycled tank,I started my bare-bottom 35G(DT) + 10G(3-chamber)sump mid-september 2014 with NSW, 15K live rock, Reef Octopus 110NT - finished fish-less cycle week of November 2, param: (NH3,NO2,NO3) was always 0,0,0-0.5(worst) phosphate 0.25 - 1.0(worst), PH was always stable 7.8-8.2, KH 7-8, Ca - 460-480, temp never went above 29
i have 3 yellowtail damsels, 1 clownfish, 1 green chromys, 2 pajama cardinals, 4 nassarius snail and 3 turban snails all juvenile sizes(added nov-dec)
corals are 1 hammer, 1 bubble, 1 frogspawn,1 elegance, some red mushrooms, 1 actino, 1 GSP and 2 zoas clusters(added dec-Feb)
on january 2015 I bought a phosban reactor and biopellets, it wasn't working after 3 weeks, just got bad brown algae and bacterial "white threads", changed to GFO and placed purigen and De*nitrate in sump(around last week of january 2015)
then on February 5,after feeding in the morning, I accidentally left the wavemakers off. turned them back up after 15 hours in the evening. measured NH3 - 0.25, NO2 was still zero, NO3 was 40. nataranta ako, so I placed ammo lock in the sump. two days later, my ammonia shot up to 2.0! kaya pala corals were closed for one day!
did an emergency water change saturday(feb7) - changed 15G almost 50% total volume. added another dose of Ammo lock, then measured on feb8, ammonia now is 4.0! Nitrite - 0.5
almost all corals are now in QT tank, only the fishes are in the DT.fish and snails seem ok,wala namang patay, kumakain naman, hindi mukhang stressed. corals are "half" open.
questions:
1. should I do daily water changes? how much?
2. should I keep using ammolock if I do water changes? parang false measurements kasi nakukuha ko dahil sa ammolock
3. can I add Biodigest and Bioptim? or will these make it worse?
4. what other suggestions and recovery moves/tools can you recomend?
sorry long post, mura lang naman yung livestock and corals, kaso napamahal na sa mga anak ko eh.kaya set to recover ako from this.thanks sa suggestions in advance!