nitrite and nitrate problems. please help

[mediumreef]

hey guys have a few questions about how to reduce my nitrite and nitrates. i have a 40 breeder setup. crushed coral 5 pounds live rock and some reef rock. its been setup for a month now. ive been using an api master kit and ive been doing 10% water changes every 2 days. Also have been adding API Stress Zyme. seems to be helping a little. i also have a pretty bad outbreak of brown algae. i can actually touch the crushed coral and the stuff just disappears. but comes back within an hour or two. it got a little better over the last day. im using kent marine A and B. because it says u can use it up to a 40g tank. seems to be working. My room mate liked the tank so i set it up. he recently added a candy coral. and with all the parameters reading the way they are im surprised there not dead but there doing awesome just as i got it from my local FS. also in there is a clown. and a small choco chip star. I do know they eat coral but i keep him well fed and watch him he has no interest yet so i leave him be. also 2 small power heads. temp is 76. i have a coral life fixture 2 10,000k daylights and 2 atinics. any input would be nice. thank you guys.

 

[JohnK]

Nitrite means the tank is still cycling. You should hold off on any further livestock additions until the nitrite is a steady zero.

The Kent A and B is a calcium / alkalinity supplement. You should test those levels and does the A and b accordingly, don't just dose A and B blindly.

The crushed coral may become a problem down the road, course substrates encourage detritis and other crap to settle in and decay insted of being removed by skimming or other flitration.

Main thing to do right now is to just wait for the tank to finish cycling.

 

[NeverlosT]

john is right, hit the brakes and let the microorganisms catch up.

 

[mediumreef]

ok thank you guys

 

[reefkeeper2]

Another reefer in Bridgewater! I was beginning to get lonely.

 

[mediumreef]

o hey wats up. your the first person yet ive seen from either bridgewater or raynham.

 

[reefkeeper2]

That's why I said I was beginning to get lonely. Bridgewater seems to be a reef challenged area. I know some people in West Bridgewater and Brockton though.