Back to town :D

[mrhasan]

Hello everyone,

Just got back from home country after a tiring 42 hours flight + no sleep (for some unknown reason, I always fail to sleep in planes unlike almost everyone else :|)

My room mate did great care of my tank (top offs + cleaning the skimmer + feeding). But within 20 days, the nitrates shot up to 40ppm :| I don't know why but I guess he might have overfed. I run a rio nano skimmer (and it works :P), 20 pounds of live rock, an aqueon 20 with carbon + phospad and another aqueon 20 with two pouches of chemi pure elite. I thought the nitrates wouldn't shoot up that high since I got enough chemi pure but I guess I was wrong. Should I add a bag of puregen? Will that help after WC to keep nitrates under control? Its a 20 long.

Alongside, I came home and the digital pH meter was already delivered and like the API was saying, my water rested at 7.8. Will that be ok for everything? I am thinking of adding a cleaner shrimp, a tuxedo urchin, few emerald crabs, a maxi-mini and few lps frags + some sps to test my light.

My refractometer is in the post office and I will be collecting it tomorrow morning.

So far so good. Atleast my room mate took good care of my tank, no crash and the coraline algae is already showing up