water change yet?

[tornado0123]

left the 25th to go to Chicago raised ammonia level to 4.0ppm came home today and 0.00 see below

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[TD="width: 81"]1/212012[/TD]
[TD="class: xl63, width: 68, align: right"]1/21/2012
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[TD="class: xl63, width: 68, align: right"]1/22/2010[/TD]
[TD="class: xl63, width: 68, align: right"]1/23/2012[/TD]
[TD="class: xl63, width: 68, align: right"]1/23/2012[/TD]
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[TD="class: xl63, width: 68, align: right"]1/27/2012
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[TD]PH[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]8.20[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]7.80[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]8.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]8.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]8.20[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]7.80[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]7.80[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]7.80[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]8.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]8.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]8.00[/TD]
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[TD]Ammonia[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]1.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]0.50[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]0.50[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]0.25[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]0.50[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]0.50[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]0.50[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]0.50[/TD]
[TD]0.00-0.25[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]4.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]0.00[/TD]
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[TD]Nitrate[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]20.00
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[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]20.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]20.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]20.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]20.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]20.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]10.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]10.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]0.00[/TD]
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[TD]Nitrite[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]1.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]3.00[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65, align: right"]5.00[/TD]
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[TD="class: xl64, align: right"]7:45:00 PM[/TD]
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[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]8:58 AM[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]8:45 AM[/TD]
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[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]2:04 PM[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]11:00 AM[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]9:00 PM[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66"]10:30am[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66, align: right"]6:26 PM[/TD]
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so time for a water change yet?

 

[REEFKEEPER10]

nitrite are high still which is weird. i think a water change would help that.

 

[tornado0123]

what %

 

[REEFKEEPER10]

maybe someone else could add to it. if your tank is through cycling then a 100% would give a clean slate to work with but if not you may have to do another water change.

 

[REEFKEEPER10]

how big is the tank and how much live rock

 

[Raggamuffin]

no offence, but you had pretty darn consistant readings for the week, following a typical cycle but that 4.00 was way to big and abrupt of a spike, I think that test was wrong. the rest makes sense to me and yes I would start with a few water changes to get that 5.0 down to under 2 before starting to add clean up crew; that is to high to add anything as is IMO.

 

[tornado0123]

tank 45 gallon not sure how much live rock or sand stuff came with it i just rinsed the sand and boiled the rock

here is a pic maybe your guess from that i say between 40-55 lbs

 

[tornado0123]

i added half of shot glass of 100% ammonia thats why it went up re tested this morning and aMMONIA WAS @ 0.25PPM

no offence, but you had pretty darn consistant readings for the week, following a typical cycle but that 4.00 was way to big and abrupt of a spike, I think that test was wrong. the rest makes sense to me and yes I would start with a few water changes to get that 5.0 down to under 2 before starting to add clean up crew; that is to high to add anything as is IMO.