Good to hear that your ammonia is down. It was at .5 the other day.

If IPU says that your water is good then I'm assuming they checked nitrate and nitrite and they must be down too.

With all of that death you were bound to have a small mini-cycle.

thanks for coming over to test the water
and IPU said my nitrite is .20

^^^ since when is nitrite good for fish???


i got a feeling your gonna lose alot of money in this hobby, good luck with your tank man:lol:

You had an electric flame scallop as well?
I'm not trying to pick on you but you seem to be ignoring the advice people are giving you.
You need to stop looking at the money part of the problem but as to the livestock that are getting killed unnecessarily.
http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/li...dcover%29.html
You should get this book. It's a good read.

No, you need test kits and proper water parameters first.

If your limited budget precludes this then you're in the wrong hobby.

You guys are wasting your breath.

Live and learn. You can lead a horse to water can't make it drink. This guy will figure out what's right/wrong or proper/improper the hard way. The expensive way.

I will buy a test kit asap
i bought a Refractometer and a PH bottle test i will buy the rest asap

Is this copepod ?
http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/...g/P1040094.jpg

and here is the corals pic the frogspawn doing well having a small one on the side
http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/...g/P1040081.jpg

and the only reason WHY i dont read the books because i get headache from reading books cuz i got hit by a car lastyear i have some head injuries

but thank you all for helps and suggestion

If a cuc nuked your tank, guess what? The test kits probably won't be able to test for the nasties it released. They will test for stuff like Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates, pH, and some trace minerals maybe. But they won't have test kits for the toxic stuff that a cuc releases when it dies.


Also, Ammonia & Nitrites should always be at ZERO before any livestock goes in the tank. Some Nitrates & phosphates are "okay", but not Ammonia & Nitrites.

Your test kits are more for every day, long term use, IMO, as opposed to mainly to test for right now (post-cuc-nuke). Use them to check regularly over the next several months till your tank matures and recovers fully from the cuc-nuke.