ammonia
It's possible that all that planting and cleaning stirred up the substrate and put some ammonia in the tank. Until the nitrogen cycle is complete, the aquarium will have an ammonia problem. You m...
...sses. It sounds like you are doing things correctly. Have you had a chance to check your water parameters? Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, Temperature? What are you feeding them? How many are in what size ...
...e more thing: According to at least one reliable source, some plants like hornwort can directly metabolise ammonia. In addition, live plants help control algae. So, it was two more things....
Stress is a common reason for a fish to lose coloring. One major source of stress is toxic ammonia in the water. Ammonia is a natural byproduct of fish digestion and respiration as well as uneaten foo...
In my opinion, I would be doing 1-2 partial water changes every day until you get that ammonia down to below .25. You might not notice the signs of ammonia poisioning because I believe it starts in t...
...s said, are to be squeezed a little but not rinsed. My best guess is that the cycle was halted by too much ammonia; it is after all a cleaner and at the right concentration will kill bacteria. Cycling...
You don't really need ammonia if you have live plants and some gravel from an established aquarium. Just feed the good cooties with a little bit of flake food, and check for ammonia and nitrite i...
Sorry. I didn't notice the ammonia results in your previous posting. You're correct that if the water was unhealthy previously, the effects can be manifested later. Goldfish tend to produce...
Yes. They sell a separate kit for testing ammonia. It costs less than ten bucks and will last for a long time. Once you get the ammonia to zero you don't need to test very often unless you over c...
During the cycling process you will have some ammonia and some nitrite. The ideal level for both is zero. The zero means that the beneficial bacteria have colonised the aquarium enough to neutralize a...
...er like Amquel Plus. I know a lady who uses it for every partial water change. If you have already used an ammonia remover, some test kits will give a false positive reading. However, the fact that Al...
An aquarium in the process of cycling will have ammonia spikes. After it's fully cycled and properly maintained, ammonia and nitrites stay at zero. In a freshwater aquarium, the way to correct am...
... change. Usually a fish will get ich if his immune system is weakened, and the primary way that happens is ammonia in the water. Two main reasons for ammonia are an incomplete nitrogen cycle and over ...
...an't make it too clean, but you can kill all the good cooties. They're the bacteria that convert ammonia and nitrite into harmless plant food, and they live mostly in the substrate. You can ...
...on the back 70 gallon filter on my 39 gallon tank. The Filter has three parts, foam block, carbon bag and ammonia remover bag. The tank has been established for over a year and I just replaced the a...
I am sure your tank is still cycling. When your tank is done, you should have 0 ammonia and 0 nitrites. You could also have a big bio-load from your fish, and that would make it take longer because ...
Okay, I'll do just that, thanks. Do you think the high amounts of ammonia I have been adding have been killing off some of the beneficial bacteria? After all, ammonia is a cleaning agent.
...anges once a week, more with fry, or their growth can get stunted and they get deformed with any traces of ammonia and nitrite. Your ammonia and nitrite should be 0, and the nitrate should be between...
I had a fantail goldfish that did that for awhile. He ended up dying though, this reason could be high ammonia levels. Try and do water changes each week to keep the ammonia down.
The ideal situation is zero ammonia. If the aquarium has any ammonia or nitrite, some of the causes are over feeding, a tank that has not cycled, infrequent partial water changes, and anything that�...
...r. So I will just wait it out for awhile. It's not even been a month yet since I set it up. Did an ammonia test yesterday and it has a little bit of ammonia so I am going to do a 1/3 water cha...
I suppose that dead plants would increase the ammonia level, but things like hornwort actually digest ammonia. For some reason, live plants get off to a better start if you have plenty of them. Hornwo...
Ammonia is the first thing produced by waste products. Then it goes to nitrite followed by nitrate. Goldfish tolerate ammonia much better than most aquarium fish, but you should still try to get ammon...
Your ammonia should be 0. You are probably still having a cycle since you have a pretty big bioload your good bacteria can't catch up. Do you have a lot of "junk" at the bottom? If y...
hello, thank you today i checked my ammonia nitrite and nitrate to know that if i finish aquarium cycle and it says:
ammonia:0.50
nitrite:0
nitrate:10
then after that i change 10 percent of th...
He's probably sick because of the high ammonia level. Goldfish can tolerate some ammonia, but it does make a toxic environment. Please be sure that you're not putting in more fish food than ...
I have two API test kits for ammonia. One uses two reagents and the other uses one. Some ammonia testers give false results if you have used ammonia removing chemicals. I bought the extra test kit whe...
...ater could be due to a number of things, however the most common reason for this is that there is too much ammonia in the water, i.e. from fish wastes, food, plant debris, etc.
It can be taken care...
no hes died, the problem with using tap water is that our tap water has ammonia at 0.25ppm,so we dont wanna be putting ammonia in the tank when we are trying to get rid of it
...n pet stores. Very briefly, the article says that the nitrogen cycle starts when fish and food wastes make ammonia. An aerobic bacteria then converts the ammonia to nitrite, and another aerobic bacter...
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