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If you are reading ammonia then your tank is not cycled. A cycled tank should read 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and you would have nitrate. Are you replacing your filter media when you do your water changes? If so you are throwing away your biological bacteria. A new filter media means you would...

This actually faster than my method.

So I have only been in the hobby for a little over a year. However I do read a lot and watch a lot of videos on it. From what I understand you just need to get your filter media established. So run your new filter in your established tank for a week. Afterward you just setup your new tank...

I came here because over the last 3 months my fish are dying. I too use Flourish Excel and recently I am thinking maybe it's the Excel that's doing it. I use a syringe but sometime i put a little extra because some people put 2 to 3 times more. So I figured I don't have to be exact. So...