ammonia spike

Hello all, newbie here. so i set up my 20 gallon tank a month ago. Used salt from Dupla marin. I then added a starter bacteria for fishless cycle. It had a pungent smell, and after adding it i had ammonia of 1ppm aaprx. The bottle suggested to dose daily until ammonia drops to zero and so i...

Hi. I have a new nano a couple of months old. I’ve recently added a few new fish (about 5) all little fish to a stable Cpl mths old brand new Red Sea nano max tank. It’s been roughly 1 week & I today read my seneye to find Ammonia spiked from stable NH3 from 0.001 to today 0.030 & over the last...

Its just difficult not to overfeed when you're trying to entice a new fish to start eating. I won't bore you with the ammonia spike in my QT tank, but it happened just a week after adding one fish to my newly cycled 20G QT tank. I hadn't even added copper yet. At the moment I'm using an...

I had an issue with a reef tank, and was chasing down the cause of high ammonia, when during the process of testing everything, I checked a fresh sample of RO mixed with CP in a glass container. I was surprised to see that the reading on the Hanna was 0.1 To follow that up, I tested both the...

Hi Everyone! I checked my five-gallon tank yesterday. and PH 7.8, salinity 1.023, TEP 23–24, amonia 1.0 ppm, nitrite 0 / nitrate 0. I therefore added a cup of Seachem Prime and a cup of Seachem Stability. I added 1 cup full prime this morning as well. When I returned from work, I checked the...

Simmer overflow last night, didn't think much of it but decided to check ammonia levels this morning and it spiked to 2.0 from 0. since bacteria is established and went through the nitrite-nitrate cycle, would the ammonia harmless as in less toxic to fish??? I'll be doing a 50% water change...

Hi. I’ve converted my QT never had medication in it to a seahorse tank. She’s only 50L & cycled fallow 3 mths before adding new livestock. Weds, 4 days ago roughly I’ve added 2 very young long snout seahorses. 2 tiny baby spotted mandarin fish & 1 Ruby red also tiny baby size. Tonight my...

I think my fish would be happier if his tank was decorated with algae instead of plastic, but I don't know if I can do it inmediately or have to wait for the tank to cycle :( I'm pretty new in taking care of plants and all the algae I've tried to inmerse in the tank died, so I'm thinking of...