Amonia spike help
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EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
Just another girl who likes fish
What is each tube measuring??My amonia levels are up a lot my fish are all acting weird someone know what I can do??? I have a 55 gallon tank with 5 fish and outta no where this is happening
officialreefbros
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How long have you had it set up for? Did you cycle appropriately? If you did not cycle you can do a water change and run to like petco and get Bio-Spira. Fritz turbo start works great but if there are fish already in you wouldn't want to wait for shipping.
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
Just another girl who likes fish
Your first concern is the safety of your fish... a large water change is probably your best option.
But we need more information...
How long has your tank been cycled? Really no reason to continue to test for ammonia in an established system... Are you sure your test solutions aren't expired?
How recently did you increase the bioload (i.e. add more fish)?
You said the fish are "acting weird"... What does this mean?
But we need more information...
How long has your tank been cycled? Really no reason to continue to test for ammonia in an established system... Are you sure your test solutions aren't expired?
How recently did you increase the bioload (i.e. add more fish)?
You said the fish are "acting weird"... What does this mean?
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
Just another girl who likes fish
Hmmm... Almost every one of the OP's threads is an emergency...
officialreefbros
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OP please start with watching the BRS 5 min guides intro to reefing. They help a lot!
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fubanachi24
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Yes the reason because of the ammonia Spike is because clams and food that was in the bottom of the rocks when I was cleaning my tank today I found a bunch of clams and some pieces that weren’t eaten yet. I am guessing that is what messed up my tank? I have a 37 gallon reef tank I put my blue tang and my Picasso triggerfish in there because they weren’t looking so good right now I have a white spotted puffer with a little tang in my 60 gallon and I am doing a 50% water change
Sustained Ammonia spikes are misreads
The reason you think your reef tank can’t control its ammonia is due to false training from old cycling science. That and you don’t own a seneye on the tank in question: if you did, you wouldn’t ever think your ammonia was out of control...
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Applying disease preps like fallow and quarantine are the focus
We don't see real ammonia events in display reefs before a fish kill, we see them after
Api ammonia shows all kinds of crazy readings in tanks
Posting a pic of your tank will help, it will show plenty of surface area in play like those tanks above had and from your tank pic we can check details like those above in the thread
The test kits won't help, the tank pic and details about how you prep for disease will help
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Looks to be a dark green one, on the right. Dunno what else it could be, other than an ammonia test.Sustained Ammonia spikes are misreads
The reason you think your reef tank can’t control its ammonia is due to false training from old cycling science. That and you don’t own a seneye on the tank in question: if you did, you wouldn’t ever think your ammonia was out of control...
Applying disease preps like fallow and quarantine are the focus
Posting a pic of your tank will help, it will show plenty of surface area in play like those tanks above had and from your tank pic we can check details like those above in the thread
The test kits won't help, the tank pic and details about how you prep for disease will help
Dburr1014
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Yellow is 0.My amonia levels are up a lot my fish are all acting weird someone know what I can do??? I have a 55 gallon tank with 5 fish and outta no where this is happening
API is not the greatest test kit for this.
Fish acting weird is maybe because you keep switching them to different tanks??
Maybe I'm reading this wrong.
Why so many big fish in such a small tank???
This will be a fun thread to contrast api ammonia vs tank pic.
The pic of an aquarium that can't control ammonia is: gray water, closed corals, fish hovering on death obvious in pics, not evenly distributed
What any animal looks like in end stage liver failure/ symptoms galore/ is what a tank without ammonia control looks like in pics
The pic of an aquarium that can't control ammonia is: gray water, closed corals, fish hovering on death obvious in pics, not evenly distributed
What any animal looks like in end stage liver failure/ symptoms galore/ is what a tank without ammonia control looks like in pics
I’m assuming thus;
Blue, nitrite
Yellow , nitrate
Purple, pH
Green, ammonia
Blue, nitrite
Yellow , nitrate
Purple, pH
Green, ammonia
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
Just another girl who likes fish
Exactly.
