Little problem

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  1. matthews27

    matthews27 Plankton

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    hi all and thanks in advance for trying to help
    ok here gose
    i have a 4ft,2ft,2.5 foot tank
    this tank also has sump
    i have around 130 kg of live rock and i have had it for a year now
    i have 8 fish/inverts
    blue tang
    brown tang
    2x clown fish
    rock goby
    1 angel
    1 puffer
    30 hermits
    and another fish that was given
    anyway
    i have a ocan runner 2500 power head
    turboflotor skimmer with ocan runner 2500 running it
    laguna 4000 to return water to my tank
    and a fluvel 205 external pump aswell
    ok now you know what i have this is my problem my tank has been running now for around a year and i have never had a problem at all
    this last 4 week im getting amonia at 0.5 and i have tryed 20% water changes all the way up to 50% water changes
    i have tryed changing there food
    water from different sauces
    changing skimmers
    changing power heads
    i have changed everything i can think of
    even changed the pipe work too
    my water test have been done with many different test kits and all show the same
    i have done every test ph and so on and all are ok
    so can anyone help me becouse this one has me
    i have no idea where its coming from
    thanks lee
     
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  3. bama

    bama Humpback Whale

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    was the sandbed stirred in any way?
     
  4. inwall75

    inwall75 Giant Squid

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    Do you have detritus collecting anywhere in your sump/fluval?
     
  5. matthews27

    matthews27 Plankton

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    due to me messing around these last 4 week sandbed has been move
    i have about a 1mm lair of detritus in my sump
    sump is 3ft,1ft,1ft
    i have just today put a power head in the sump to throw the detritus up for the skimmer to take out
     
  6. matthews27

    matthews27 Plankton

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    and the amoina never seems to change or covert