ammonia

About 4 days ago I noticed the dreaded "white spots" were on a couple cherry barbs in my tank. I initially added about a tablespoon of aquarium salt to my tank (36 gallons) and turned up my heater to 82 degrees as a quick fix too try to get rid of the ich, But the next day those barbs gained a...

I have 2 large oranda goldfish in a 40 gallon tank and have had just the two of them for several years now. I recently got behind in my otherwise routine water changes and noticed one of the fish gasping at the surface, floating on his right side with frayed fins, a cloudy eye (the one at the...

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Hello all! I'm new to fish keeping and I have a query about water quality.   My current set up involves a 100L tank containing 1 bubble-eye goldfish and a small pond containing 5 goldfish (a mix of orlandas and regular goldfish).  I've had some trouble recently with ammonia poisoning with my...

Alright, I made a post a few days ago regarding my violet goby and he seems to now be showing signs of ammonia poisoning. I had him in an uncycled tank. I've done 2 25% water changes so far and attempted to add one of those fizzy ammonia tabs to lower the levels, but no luck. He's still gasping...

Hi all,   So basically, I've had my tank set up for nearly a year now, and It's been fine for a long time. Recently (about 2 months ago) I noticed that the Nitrate levels were increasing, I increased the number of water changes to twice a week. Now I didn't take a lot of water out the second...

I'm in the process of setting up a quarantine tank for some new shrimp I'm getting this week. I'm using the 12L to quarantine the new ones when they arrive in a couple of days. My plan was to use a mature spare filter that has been running in the 60L platy tank for months now. Also going to run...

hiya, ive had to setup a qt tank due to my old clownfish injuring her eye and getting pop eye, im on day 2 of myxazin which treats popeye, 1.5-2ml of it in a 28liter qt tank, think is i need to do water changes cos the ammonia is creeping up ever so slightly and i want it nominal, the question...

Hi guys !    It seems it about time for me to get a new test kit, so i was wondering if any body has had any experiences with a particular kit witch has made you go " WOW , that's awesome" or "CHRIST , that's naf "  i'd prefer to make up my own test kit of different brands this time so i can get...

Hello there!!!   Due to thievery of buckets and general busyness/laziness with perfectly maintained tanks... my tanks are no longer perfectly maintained and my water is crazy.  Now I have some questions.  For the stats, after the LFS telling me I had issues, I bought a test kit yesterday to test...

Hi all, New to hobby and have a few questions. 20 Gal tank that is about 6 weeks old. We probably should have waited but were worried about only have 3 danios, so we found a small locally owned store, and bought 2 snow white danios. So we have 5 danios, a platy and a mollie. They also recommend...

Sooo... My Daughter moved to japan and left us with her comet goldfish, a black moor, and a pleco, 3",1.5", and 3". They're currently in a 5gal tank. Just got the API kit ( fish acting oddly lately) and ammonia is 8+ ppm, Ph 6.0, nitrites .5-1, nitrates 160. We had figured they needed a larger...

Hello,   After my initial attempt at cycling my 125L tank for 33 days without any drop in ammonia, I cleaned out the tank and filter completely and started again.   On the second attempt the only difference was that instead of using water from the tap I filtered if through a Pozzani to remove...

Will changing the filter pad cause an ammonia spike or are most of the benefial bacteria in the c nodes (i have a fluval c3 filter), should i replace it or just rinse it out a bit in declorinated water?

About 50 years ago, I used to have an aquarium -- a very happy healthy one.  My success must have been blind beginner's luck, because I knew nothing of the nitrogen cycle, yet my tank flourished!  Okay, so here I am 50 years later, trying to pick up this hobby where I left off.  Unfortunately, I...

So I had a tank for about a month and 2 weeks ago I began testing the water. I saw that the nitrates were through the roof! So I had been doing water changes everyday of 20% and then eventually to 50%. After I saw no difference, I did an 80% and all the fish died, but anywho...   With a fishless...

Hello All,   I am sorry to be having to ask a fishless cycle question when there is so much information available online, but here goes again…   My tank is a newly set up 125 L Fluval with an Eheim Professional 3 filter.  I measured the water going in and there is 112 L.  There is a 1 cm think...

Hello All,   I have a new setup as follows:   Roma 125 tank Eheim Professional 3 250 filter   I put 1 cm of Tropica Plant Substrate in a couple of days ago, then 3-4 cm of gravel that came supplied with the tank over this, a medium piece of washed in fresh water bogwood from Petsathome and a...

Hi all,   This is my first post on this forum, although I have been reading it for some time now.   I have recently purchased a 25l tank for a single male betta to live in.   I have planned to do a fishless cycle and have been reading about it for weeks prior to buying my tank.   I got my tank...

I thought I would start a new thread on where to source ammonia and live bacteria starter for those of you wanting to start a Fishless Cycles.   Link for Fishless Cycle -  http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/421488-cycling-your-new-fresh-water-tank-read-this-first/   Since I am UK based...

I have been reading up on easy to care for plants to add to my aqueon evolve and was looking for some input. I came across the Marimo Moss Balls and was wondering if anyone had experience with these. From my understanding they are a great addition to the bio filtration in a tank and are helpful...

So I've had this nagging suspicion about an ornament that I purchased for my tank. The local petsmart had this lovely porcelain looking Buddha statue in their aquarium ornament section and I didn't think twice when I purchased it. I've been having issues with the tank that I put it in having...

I set up a 10 gallon tank just over a week ago and have 3 guppies. The water has been tested often and I'm doing water changes about every other day. My fish eat well (I feed them once a day) and overall seem fine, but recently one keeps opening and closing it's mouth. The tank isn't cycled yet...

Okay so, I have been struggling with Ammonia for about a month and I think I know what I want but I need to be sure so this wont happen again. I have a 28gallon (roughly 106 litres), currently I have 8 neon tetras and 4 cherry barbs but they will be gone by next week. I first noticed my ammonia...

Hi everyone,   My young sister got a fish about two weeks now. It's a huge red comet goldfish from the local petstore. They had recieved them the day she bought it so they were almost all fine and healthy (except for an extremely big oranda that was swimming upside down everywhere). When we got...

Hi everyone, I've been lurking here for about two years now. I've successfully cycled a 10gal tank with ammonia in the past, but I've run into a strange problem.   I have a 2.5 gallon that I'm attempting to cycle with Ammonia, 10% from Ace Hardware. I have an Argentina sword plant in the tank.  ...

Hi, my tank is brand new and has been set up for 29 days, planted and kept at 26C. I added fish (guppy and platy) on the 8th day and have been testing and doing regular 25% water changes every day or two depending on readings. Last time I tested I had 0.1 mg/l ammonia which was lower than it had...

So... I'm having an issue I'm sure many people have had before and I just can't find a way to get it to go away.   My 120 litre tropical tank has had an ammonia spike and it refuses to go lower than 0.50ppm; granted, it's better than it was and it was actually off the charts and killed five of...

So i went to the store and bought ammonia the ingredients are ammonium hydroxide and surfactant

This is an open thread to ask questions about cycling.

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone can help solve my problem or give me some ideas to try, because my current tank issue is driving me mad! I have trawled forums for clues, but none of the solutions mentioned have helped me so far. Also, I'm sorry, but this is going to be loooong, because I...

Hello, We recently noticed that out tiger barbs were just laying around, not eating as much, and losing a lot of color. We are beginners so we do not know much about taking care of fish tanks. It is a fairly new tank it is about 2-3 weeks old. So we bought an API Liquid Test kit and the levels...

I think I've somehow sent Rhaegar's tank into a mini-cycle - I tested ammonia levels this morning and they were at .2ppm       I've checked for uneaten food and rotting plant matter and found nothing...what could cause this?  And how can I fix it?  I don't want Rhaegar ending up ill because of...

This question is in relation to the Fishless Cycling of an aquarium.   Approach taken from: Fishless Cycling, using the add and wait method Aquarium being cycled: Juwel Vision 180 - details of tank set-up and filtration are in this link. Using Pure Ammonia 9.5% solution and calculating via the...

Hi all, I posted this comment on another thread awhile ago and thought that I should get it checked out to see what faults you can find with using this guide to cycle with cloudy ammonia:   The other day, after I went to my nearest supermarket to see if they had any pure/clear ammonia, I started...

So I made a few stupid mistakes starting my first tank. I bought a 37 gallon marineland tank. I rinsed everything (rocks,filter, accessories) and added fish about 48hrs later which I now know was too soon and too many. I have 6 platys, a bristlenose, a rafael catfish. Its been a month now and...

I just started my aquarium 2 weeks ago, I did some research but I am no expert and like many others, I learned by my mistakes! my LFS never told me about cycling so I lost 3 guppies and an albino pleco by day 10. Mind you I never changed the water, everything was brand new (no bacteria).. the...

Tank size: 34L Link pH: 7.5 ammonia: 1 ppm (4 ppm two days ago) nitrite: 1 ppm (0 two days ago) nitrate: 5 ppm (30 this morning) (0 two days ago) kH: N/A - I don't have a test for these. gH: N/A tank temp: 22 'c (I have it colder than usual for the weather loaches)   I am testing twice daily at...

Hi, Tested my ammonia past couple of days and its been getting worse! It's now in between 0.5 and 1 I've just done a large water change and that has helped! I've also changed the carbon filter as that's been in since I setup a month ago! I read somewhere that helps! What can I do next? Daily...

Hi, I have a fluval edge 46l and it has been up an running for 2 months... All has been fine when Iv done water tests, I always do a change every week. 2 days ago I got 5 more fish to bring my total to 12 so I'm now fully stocked. Did a water change when I added the new fish, today I notice 6...