Help with ammonia

[Sexytang]

I tested my water today for first time in months got to get in the habit of testing often. I was wondering why all my fish I get keep dying.
My test came out to .25 ammonia and I don’t know why I have a wavemaker breaking surface do 5g wc every week or two tank is 36g
Only fish that’s stayed alive and healthy is a maroon clown has been in tank for several months.
I use a hob filter and have a bag of carbon and use poly fill pillow stuffing as media and change that once a week. Should I let the poly fill stay longer just read a few mins ago that the poly fill builds up bacteria needed.

 

[EmdeReef]

Any signs of illness on fish? Spots? Wounds, flashing?

Elevated Ammonia could be the cause but could also be the result of fish deaths.

 

[Sexytang]

Any signs of illness on fish? Spots? Wounds, flashing?

Elevated Ammonia could be the cause but could also be the result of fish deaths.

I had a yellow tang just up and die a month or so ago had it for a few months was doing great no signs of illness then I got a bicolor angel started off rough then got looking a lot better then one day boom dead

 

[Sexytang]

The clown I have now no sights of anything

 

[Qasimja]

how many months has your tank been setup

 

[Jekyl]

How many fish do you have? Tang in a 36 gallon was an immediate red flag for me. Maroon clown plus 2 or 3 small fish is about all that tank can handle

 

[Sexytang]

how many months has your tank been setup

Tank has been up for around 8 months and only one fish the maroon.

 

[brandon429]

this is a no ammonia tank due to descriptions, no test needed to confirm. google api .25 false reading see about that...this is zero ammonia tank.

its not even possible for a dead item to be causing .25, its not biologically possible to occur in a running 8 mo reef tank, which is why not any seneye digital ammonia reader on the planet will ever show a sustained .25

if it was a dead organism, the rate has to compound
it cannot just hold at .25, that's not possible in reefing. problem solved

if you have too much fish per surface area, it compounds daily and winds up at 1 or 2 ppm fast.

if you have added meds that kill bac, it compounds.


if you have a dead worm that overtakes the system, it compounds. its not possible to have sustained .25 ammonia in any reef tank. ammonia is that predictable.