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Ammonia
By: jonesy Date: December 9, 2014, 6:40 am
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I have a fairly new tank, but I'm sure its cycled, I had the
ammonia spike, then the nitrite spike. For the last few days my
ammonia has been holding at .25ppm the nitrites are holding at 0
ppm, and my nitrates are at 40 ppm. Getting ready to do a 20%
water change to get the nitrates down. I thought the ammonia
should stay at 0. What do you thinks going on? Thanks in
advance! :)
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Re: Ammonia
By: GaryJewett Date: December 12, 2014, 6:49 pm
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Have you been adding fish?
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Re: Ammonia
By: jonesy Date: December 12, 2014, 10:30 pm
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Ya, I've got 6 chiclids in it!
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Re: Ammonia
By: GaryJewett Date: December 13, 2014, 1:55 pm
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It's gonna swing a little when new, I use Seachem Prime to keep
the ammonia and nitrites harmless and just keep doing periodic
water changes. I do 6 gallons every 2 days out of my 55 gallon
tank. Just got back from a week away and my nitrates read 40. I
have an Eheim feeder and set it for 2 small feedings a day and
the fish were fine. Today I did a water change and will do daily
till nitrates are down to 10 or so. Oh, I have 18 mbuna in the
55 gallons.
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Re: Ammonia
By: TexMex Date: December 13, 2014, 3:03 pm
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How long has the tank been set up, and how big is the tank?
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Re: Ammonia
By: jonesy Date: December 14, 2014, 12:30 am
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Ya I've been doing 10-15 gal. Water changes every other day,
I just bought some prime, but not real sure when to add it an
how much? The tank has been running for 6 weeks, its a 45
gallon. Hopefully the prime will help with the nitrates in my
tap water also, it reads 5ppm straight from the tap.
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Re: Ammonia
By: mrk13p Date: December 14, 2014, 1:26 am
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that sucks about your tap. I would recommend investing in an RO
system that removes nitrates. For the time being, i would
pretreat the tap water in a bucket a day in advance. one capful
of prime treats 50 gallons. dose the whole tank volume if not
pretreating. if pretreating, just dose the water in the bucket.
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Re: Ammonia
By: TexMex Date: December 14, 2014, 6:44 am
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What kind of filter do you have for the 45 gallon tank? Was your
filter media brand new or was it established from a previous
tank.
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Re: Ammonia
By: GaryJewett Date: December 14, 2014, 7:10 am
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Your nitrates can never be below your tap water unless you use
an RO unit or set up a non-aerobic bacteria filter, we are lucky
to have a well with no ammonia, nitrites or nitrates and I have
a system that add sodium carbonate to raise the house ph to 8.0
so our copper pipes don't corrode. Oh, plants will eat nitrates
so you can add a refugeium (sp) I let the algae gro except on
the front glass.
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Re: Ammonia
By: TexMex Date: December 14, 2014, 8:08 am
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Here is Idea for you if you don't have room for a refugium in
your sump if you have one then try this it is a hang on the back
refugium. It looks really cool think about getting one myself, I
can put some plants and you can even order one that comes with a
light. It is meant for a saltwater tank to glow micro algae, but
the same concept can be used to grow plants. They have a couple
of videos on YouTube. Check this link out if you can click on it
just copy and paste it.
HTML http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/aquafuge2-external-hang-on-refugium.html
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