all of a sudden ...boom ...amonia!!!!

[reefwars]

humm well kinda ****ed tonight , being bored as i was testing my live rock bin for amonia and my new little coffee table tank i figured i would do all the tanks, as i did the zoa tank it came up as 1.0 .........like what the @#$#@#$
ill admit after so long test dont happen that often especially for amonia as ive never had it in this tank.so i broke out the test kit and did the full on test and the only two things out are calcium at 520!! which is really highcompared to the usual 460-480 it is. also like stated the amonia was at 1.0

i dont add livestock to this tank minus zoas them selves but i did do a trade for a rock anemone a while back that never showed it face again after being added, ive had nems die before in my tank but a 1.0 seems rather high even though its been about 3 weeks since ive lost the nem.all fish( two cinn clowns,snowflake eel,matted filefish) seem as fine as usual , so only for i tested with it and i repeated the test and i dont think it is the test kit as i test the liverock bin reguarly plus a couple new additions like the roomates tank.

so ill be moving the fish to my holding tank untill i figure out what happened and parameters are right in the morning but its kinda weird because i never add stuff to this tank and this nem is small.ive also noticed some cyano in my tank alot more than whats been popping up here and there

if it helps ive been battlong a aiptasia problem in my 33g which is the tank im talking about ive got roughly 300 heads and rising hence the file fish. i regret to say it seems like my filefish may have a taste for zoas unlike my last one..... ive yet to see him actually eat any zoo's but im down a head of RPE in about 15 mins. it was there then i seen him suck something in from across the room when i got there a head of RPE was missing....i only had two so ...???

also battling a long hair algae problem its just about wiped out but it seems the tonga branch i added a little wile ago atracts the algae alot easier than the other rock in my tank which has none....also note this tank is very small and runs off no ro/di or any skimmer /fuge/pellets...anything ??

tank has been running over two years and ive never really seen anything out of whack on this tank, ill admit the cyano is a telling sign to me that things are out of equilibrium, the nem is the last thing to die and only thing ive been concerned with besides the aiptasia


yup.....reefing...gotta love it lol