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...hardy and they often become susceptible to stress-borne disease and die if not kept in optimal conditions. Ammonia and suboptimal water temperatures are the biggest threats to the immune system of a d...
...uses lots of the nutrients provided by fish and food waste, nutrients that would otherwise turn into toxic ammonia. A too-easy-to-grow floater is duckweed. It will take over an aquarium but will also ...
... just published an interesting bit of information about cycling a newly established tank to get rid of the ammonia spikes that are deadly to fish. Fish waste, food waste, and plant decay all produce a...
...seases.     * Before you do anything...Check your water parameters! Is there high ammonia? Nitrates? Nitrites? If you find any of these readings to be high, an immediate 25%...
...it, from their 25 gal, using the same water, same gravel and same filter. However, whilst PH is fine (7.0) ammonia is nil, nitrite is .25. This is the first time it's ever been higher than 0. If I don...
...nd ceramic rings. My tank is running for 6 months and i have a problem with my water parameters because my ammonia doesn't stay at zero. I do my water change 3-4 times a week. Stingrays are ammonia ...
...nts, I have 4 very small Java ferns, 2 sagittaria subulata and a couple moneyworts. I have virtually no ammonia, but both nitrite and nitrate read high for weeks now (drop test). I have drastically...
How long does the ammonia spike in a new tank last for? I think mine is at that stage now so I've done a 50% water change. Should I do one every day?
...ing a problem in one of my tanks. the reading for the water are as follows: Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate: 40ppm Ammonia: 1ppm Now that ammonia is what is worrying me, I have just done a water change, yes...
...r or more. I have been doing water changes on a monthly basis for the last 5 years, and nitrates nitrites, ammonia, PH, temperature, and alkalinity test great. I hate to see my fish in this condition....
...turns over a Marineland Biowheel Pro. The biowheel is rated for a 30G tank but, remarkably, has maintained ammonia and nitrite at unmeasureable levels with this load. I am upgrading to a second canist...
.... Since then I've started using AmQuel+ along side my water changes and my most recent water tests show no Ammonia, no Nitrites, and 5-10ppm of Nitrates (so I dosed again with AmQuel+, which should re...
...ming the biological load imposed by 16 tiny mollies will be pretty negligable? Obviously, as they grow the ammonia levels will rise. I intend to combat this by frequent water changes - using safe, t...
... I bought at Petsmart. I have added The inhabitants are as follows: 5 Platys 3 Corys 2 Otos 18 Platy fry Ammonia 0 NO2 0 NO3 2.5 Thanks...
...d a fishless cycle, where I went thought the whole process, and ended up with 5 ppm of nitrates, 0 each of ammonia, and nitrite. Then I added fish. Last time I did the fishless cycle, I was able to ...
...her than they should be but according to my test instructions not at a hazardous level. There was a little ammonia in the water, added ammo-lock to make it safe. Ammonia has started to fall in the pro...
... else say it would be all right. On another note maybe someone could help me. My water is as follows...0 Ammonia 0 Nitrites PH 8.3 ...
... Mardel's Coppersafe to combat an outbreak of ICK as per the guidelines on the medication. Now my Sea-chem ammonia alert is showing that there is ammonia in the tank. This tank has not cycled yet with...
...put few 'suicide' fishes in the tank to jump-start the cycling process. After few weeks of normal feeding, ammonia levels increased to about medium level while nitrites and nitrates read zero. Few day...
...g aquariums and aquarium care, and never seem to find consistent advice on the same subjects. The ppm of ammonia during cycling is one of the main issues, and at which point it becomes toxic to the ...
We have a 75 gal tropical aquarium. It's been set up for about a year. About 3 weeks ago our ammonia spiked up to stratospheric levels-the test tube reaches 8ppm in less than a minute. We've change
...CYCLE ...usually a 6 week time frame. In order to perform this process as a fishless cycle, a source of ammonia needs to be added to the tank daily. This can be acheived using flake food, which wil...
...e pet store as it instructed on the back. When I took water in the first time (at 1 week after setup), the ammonia and nitrite were very high (don't know the actual numbers, but they were at the worst...
My ammonia and nitrite are consistently 0, so why do my nitrates always seem to be 40pmm, even with twice weekly water changes?
...ts, I have 4 very small Java ferns, 2 sagittaria subulata and a couple moneyworts. I have virtually no ammonia, but both nitrite and nitrate read high for weeks now (drop test). I have drastically...
... them out again but are at a loss as to what to do next. We have a Fluval 350 canister filter with carbon, ammonia remover, and Biomax in it. Water is steady at 79 degrees. Help! I don't want to kill ...
... lie on side, and die. Cause; aged tank slowly consumed carbonate buffer - (low kH) pH slowly drops, toxic ammonia becomes non-toxic (ammonium) and builds up. Then with water change, the buffer is sud...
...efractometer) Well they said my salinity was a little high at 1.026. They keep theirs at 1.024. ph was 8.2 ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate were all 0. alkalinity was 240ppm. My temp was a little highe...
...ning at 80 Deg) Powerhead 201, hooked into underground filter and Aquaclear Mini filter (with Charcoal and ammonia elements). Here is the problem: I had the tank for About 1 year, a nd could not get...
... just published an interesting bit of information about cycling a newly established tank to get rid of the ammonia spikes... Article moved to the blog, too good to be buried here in two months. ht...
...eturned home after only 4 days gone to a tank with completely green water, dead and dying fish everywhere, ammonia through the roof and the stench of a dead tank. Roommate claims the fish were fine th...
...e me a bottle of AMMO-LOCK, and told me to use that because they said a high PH reading is due to too much ammonia. I have put in 3 doses already and I am still tesing way above 8.0 for PH ?? help ???...
...ixth day, it was completely dead. As far as I can tell, all my water parameters are in check (pH=8.2, no ammonia, temp around 78). ~4 watts of power compact per gallon. I have fish and hammer corals...
...ogBook plugin to track and graph Test kit results for more then 10 different aquarium parameters (Nitrate, Ammonia, Temperature, Salinity, ...); 11. Example plugin: is a plugin example provided with...
...so looks normal physically and there has been no observed harassment by other fish. There is no trace of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate or phosphate. pH is about 8.2 (that's all the test kits I have). Sa...
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