Omg! Test Results!

[Ronananator]

this tank has been going for about 2 months no fish died nothing ? but yet ammonia soooooo high and ph soo low ? an suggestions ? btw i changed form gravel to sand to higher ph and did about 60% water change

 

[walkers101]

test results?

 

[Ronananator]

http/i52.tinypic.com/2eq3tb4.jpg sorry

 

[mattlee]

when cycling a tank the pH will normally drop quite low. the only thing you can do is to keep on doing water changes until it corrects itself.

removing the gravel may have been a factor in this happening as gravel is a good place for bacteria to live so removing it may have contributed to the ammonia rise and pH drop.

 

[Ronananator]

they are the results after befor i removed gravel and if it was cycleing there would be nitrate/nitrate thats a 2 month old tank were talking about lol

 

[mattlee]

they are the results after befor i removed gravel and if it was cycleing there would be nitrate/nitrate thats a 2 month old tank were talking about lol

filters can take much longer than 8 weeks to cycle so unless the tank was cycled prior to the 2 months then there is a chance that its still not cycled 100%. nitrate is the end product of the nitrogen cycle so unless the tank is cycled nitrates will be pretty much what come out of the tap.

 

[Ronananator]

ok so i understand what u are saying and i did some research isnt it true that low ph turns ammonia into ammonium and the api tester kit is testing for ammonium right ? also i read that filters cant prosese ammonium right!.... so anyways i got the fish in a tank with heater/air bubblers as i was putting that tank into coral sand to higher ph and good news i did about 10 25% water changes to try and detoxafie the cloudyness of water and the new test results are ......

p.s is it safe to put the fish back into tank when it is this cloudy and i will acclimite them over long period of time

 

[mattlee]

low pH can stall a cycle. when this happens people either add bicarbonate of soda or do a large water change depending on the type of cycle, if you have fish in then a water change is the way to go as they wont like the bicarb.

the API test kit testa for ammonia as it says on the box or packaging not ammonium.

also without a supply of ammonia the filters bacteria that has formed will start to die off so while the fish are in the other tank you still need to have an ammonia source for the filter in the bigger tank. this is the problem with fish in cycling as there are numerous water changes involved to keep the ammonia at 0 without harming the fish and also quite a few pH drops which dont do the fish any good. also when it does eventually cycle it will only be to the bioload of the stocking in the tank at the time so be very cautious when adding new fish.

i wouldnt put the fish back in until the ammonia reads 0 then acclimatise them slowly as the Ph will be higher so not to shock them.

 

[satu55555]

Hi,

I know that water quality can become really bad if you use hairsprays or scented candles in the house. Even one use affects the water a lot. I'm not a specialist with water quality, but my tank has really good ones and my husband who's got education in these matters says no hairspray or scented candles. I sprayed once hairspray in the bathroom, far away from the tank and opened the window afterwards. In the evening the tank water had a film on top of it. And it happened again so I realised how easily these things affect the tank. Not sure if this helps any, but I thought I'd mention it.

 

[anon02]

The api tests for total ammonia (NH+NH4), filters will cycle ammonium as well as they cycle ammonia. If you have done so many water changes I would expect good test results, you must have nearly pure tap water in your tank by now