HELP: 7mg/L ammonia reading

[Colin_T]

Test your tap water for ammonia.
Buy a bottle of distilled water and test that for ammonia. It should be 0ppm.

If the distilled water has ammonia, then the test strips are faulty.

 

[Willbacon23]

It’s still

Test your tap water for ammonia.
Buy a bottle of distilled water and test that for ammonia. It should be 0ppm.

If the distilled water has ammonia, then the test strips are faulty.

perfecr thanks I will try that now

 

[Willbacon23]

Test your tap water for ammonia.
Buy a bottle of distilled water and test that for ammonia. It should be 0ppm.

If the distilled water has ammonia, then the test strips are faulty.

Should I hold off on feeding today and tommorow until this is sorted or will this harm the fish

 

[Willbacon23]

Test your tap water for ammonia.
Buy a bottle of distilled water and test that for ammonia. It should be 0ppm.

If the distilled water has ammonia, then the test strips are faulty.

In my tank of 6 cories 8 Pygmy cories and 6 danio I will feed once a day around 5 tropical flakes and 3/4 of an algae water, is this too much?

 

[PheonixKingZ]

In my tank of 6 cories 8 Pygmy cories and 6 danio I will feed once a day around 5 tropical flakes and 3/4 of an algae water, is this too much?

No, that seems like a good amount.

 

[Willbacon23]

No, that seems like a good amount.

This spike makes no sense!