Spike in tank after water change

[Onlymixlife]

Help . Just Saturday I did my routine water change, all water parameters were right after water change . Come Monday I test my water ammonia is 0.25, Nitrate was 10 now it’s 40 . Nitrite was 0 now it almost .25. PH was 8.2 now 8.0 should I do an emergency water change? Or what

 

[brandon429]

False scare from api

Not a real event

You didn't have any ammonia issues, upwelling of common organics does this with this kit

 

[Onlymixlife]

So I should just retest in a few days ?

 

[Onlymixlife]

False scare from api

Not a real event

You didn't have any ammonia issues, upwelling of common organics does this with this kit

So I should retest in a few days ?

 

[Nlara]

Age of tank?

 

[brandon429]

No need to ever test ammonia in a display. Post a full tank picture I'll show you why ammonia stays just fine in reef displays

 

[brandon429]

Quarantine low surface area setups can have ammonia control issues, displays won't have that issue=no need to test especially with the #1 kit most likely to misread

 

[Onlymixlife]

Age of tank?

Probably about 2 month old I use a fast booster to cycle and water been in check for 2 weeks now until today

 

[brandon429]

Post a pic of your tank, we use tank pics to decode cycles not test readings from non digital kits (the pics show degree of surface area in use factored alongside your stated tank age levels + feed and dosing)

 

[brandon429]

Expect api and similar kits to misread and cause you false ammonia concern when:

changing water

moving rocks


feeding the tank

adding a fish

removing a fish

moving things between tanks

*none of those events require ammonia testing thankfully, the parameter simply handles itself nobody needs to test for ammonia in a display. We cycle dry rock systems using # of days underwater in place of testing nowadays, in certain threads.

 

[Onlymixlife]

Expect api and similar kits to misread and cause you false ammonia concern when:

changing water

moving rocks


feeding the tank

adding a fish

removing a fish

moving things between tanks

*none of those events require ammonia testing thankfully, the parameter simply handles itself nobody needs to test for ammonia in a display. We cycle dry rock systems using # of days underwater in place of testing nowadays, in certain threads.

Expect api and similar kits to misread and cause you false ammonia concern when:

changing water

moving rocks


feeding the tank

adding a fish

removing a fish

moving things between tanks

*none of those events require ammonia testing thankfully, the parameter simply handles itself nobody needs to test for ammonia in a display. We cycle dry rock systems using # of days underwater in place of testing nowadays, in certain threads.

 

[Onlymixlife]

Post a pic of your tank, we use tank pics to decode cycles not test readings from non digital kits (the pics show degree of surface area in use factored alongside your stated tank age levels + feed and dosing)

 

[Onlymixlife]

This is the tank

 

[brandon429]

Solid! I got your chat, glad to help. That’s so much cycled rock you simply don’t need to test for ammonia using any meter ever again on it, you’re done cycling.
it works like this:

have you ever seen your LFS, or any peer on any reef board run an oxygen test on their tank? I’ve been online in reef forums 21 yrs straight and only seen it once, in a focused chemistry forum study here.

nobody tests for oxygen, it’s a gimme

it works itself out fine in reefing

ammonia in a display is just like that, for the reasons stated prior.

simply stop testing for ammonia permanently. It cannot rise all of a sudden, to kill your fish. Old cycling science thought it could, but we’ve advanced, it can’t.

if you continue to test for ammonia on this tank, expect fear, dread and doubt at each interval.

 

[brandon429]

The one sole thing you should worry about: how to prevent fish disease loss via fallow and quarantine / observational quarantine approaches. If those have been skipped = u should worry.

to get all info on those concepts, do a ten day focused self study reading all stickies in the disease forum.

Fish Disease Treatment and Diagnosis

A forum for discussing treatment and diagnosing saltwater reef fish.

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Onlymixlife]

Solid! I got your chat, glad to help. That’s so much cycled rock you simply don’t need to test for ammonia using any meter ever again on it, you’re done cycling.
it works like this:

have you ever seen your LFS, or any peer on any reef board run an oxygen test on their tank? I’ve been online in reef forums 21 yrs straight and only seen it once, in a focused chemistry forum study here.

nobody tests for oxygen, it’s a gimme

it works itself out fine in reefing

ammonia in a display is just like that, for the reasons stated prior.

simply stop testing for ammonia permanently. It cannot rise all of a sudden, to kill your fish. Old cycling science thought it could, but we’ve advanced, it can’t.

if you continue to test for ammonia on this tank, expect fear, dread and doubt at each interval.

 

[Onlymixlife]

This is the p.H nitrates and nitrates also did move around sun rock yesterday as well .

 

[brandon429]

those look fine for sure

 

[Onlymixlife]

those look fine for sure

Ok thank you for your help