question on ocellaris

Yes you have a problem, need to cycle, water change, carbon for a week or two before adding anything and hope the fish makes it through. Water change is going to make the biggest difference IMO, and most likely you will have to do multiple small water changes. Try to feed very little.

 

I'm glad you went ahead and gave us the exact water conditions. As those are higher than you would like. All should be zero if I'm not mistaken. Ammonia will begin to irritate the gills of fish and burn. Sounds like you got a bit ahead of yourself with adding the live stock before cycle had finished.

 

dude no offense but your parameters suck! XD do some water changes and bring the stuff down

 

i agree with corailline about the bacterial blooms, sounds really weird though since its over night..... IIWY i would bring the clown back to LFS or give it to someone who has a stable tank while yours is cycling. PLEASE dont cycle with live fish (not saying you were doing this) try a 50% water change for like a week or so...that helped me, just a bit expensive

 

I hear you people, in a previous post I mention the tanks was running for 3 weeks with no live stock, test, and retest parameters all where on "0", so I thought cycle was over, so I brought a small CUC then a clown few days later , and hell broke loose. Today I did a 50%WC and place new carbon, and nitrite, and nitrate removal media. The tank is a lot clearer than it was.
When should it be safe to perform another WC?
Thanks everybody

 

When you add a fish the tank has to adjust to the new bio-load. The fish is producing more ammonia than the tank has nutrifying bacteria. The tank catchs up in a short period of time, but if you add too many fish at one time and feed them, the tank may experience an ammonia spike. Even the addition of two fish in a new tank can cause this shift in water parameters. Personally I would just keep doing smaller more frequent water changes as the needed until your test kit shows no ammonia and no nitrite.

Good Luck.

 

Cool , will keep doing Water changes till parameters come back down again.
Thanks