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Well I siphoned out a ton of gunk from the bottom of the sand bed. Wow it smelled terrible! I tested the ammonia before I did anything and it was close to 1 ppm, so I'm still pretty nervous. I'll test it tomorrow hopefully with a lot of the gunk from the bottom gone there will be less ammonia being produced. Nitrite and nitrates are still at zero as well.
I've read a lot of conflicting advice on prime actually detoxifying, it seems to be a false claim from Seachem...either way I'm not counting on it right now. Unfortunately I don't have anything other than the API test for ammonia so I don't even know how much free ammonia is in the tank right now.I agree. He may still get an ammonia reading but it will be detoxify. I would think that would be the best and fastest reducer of ammonia. I've used it myself twice for small spikes