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03-14-2003, 04:03 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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|  I second that! I'm all ears.
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04-01-2003, 09:41 AM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Edmonton
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| Yes! Plants help however only if they are growing in the tank. If there are no nutrients, C02 or enough lighting, the plants will slowly start dying themselves and not using ammonia/nitrites.
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06-05-2003, 03:08 PM
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| Forum Manager  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Colorado
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| EVERYWHERE I have read says to get about 5ppm of ammonia in the tank and keep it that way. What happens if you put way too much in? I accidentally put WAAY too much in last night and um...did a 4 gallon change out of my 10 gallon this morning to see if I could lower the level...and it really didn't change much. Should I just wait for it to go down now...or should I keep doing water changes until the ammonia level drops?? 10 gallon tank...no fish...no nothing. The Ammonia is as high as the kit reads...I put a splash of ammonia from the bottle in last night, dunno how much that was. The nitrites are as high as they read on the chart. And I have no clue what the nitrate level is. The tank was set up...and cycled for 3 weeks with fish in it...then I moved the fish out and its been empty for almost a week. The ammonia level went down (because there weren't any fish in it) so I decided to finish the cycle w/o fish and add some ammonia. Help?
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06-05-2003, 06:40 PM
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| Forum Manager Join Date: May 2003 Location: Colorado
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| No one?? Well while I was waiting for someone here to help me out I went and did some more research. I found this site: http://www.tropicalfishcentre.co.uk/Fishlesscycle.htm which proved to be pretty helpful.
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06-05-2003, 08:25 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Delaware County, PA
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| hahaha - yeah, i did the same thing with my 6gal eclipse. I dumped a lot of ammonia in...very scientific of me.  My ammonia levels were off the chart. I just did a bunch of water changes until my levels were ledgible. Then I added a cap-full to bring it back to 8ppm. I just let it go at that point.
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06-07-2003, 05:25 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: May 2003
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| Yeah I did the same thing. Not sure what I was thinking (or rather NOT thinking). I dumped about 1/3 of a cup ammonia into a 10G tank. Right after I did that I went DOH! I then drained out all the water except for about 1/2" or less that the gravel was covering. Fulled the tank back up and still got readings of around 5 to 7 ppm.
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