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04-28-2008, 07:16 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Arizona
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|  Help! My Ammo's back! 6.6g Finfin the betta Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0 pH: 7.6 AMMONIA: .25!!! It's back! I just put in the biospira a couple weeks ago. And now the ammo's back. What do I do? I cleaned the tank on Sat., forgot to test so I tested today. Could it be the new gravel and fake plants? I originally had the ugly castle thing and two fake plants. They had biospira on them. Now only the castle is left in there. What happened? Help! (Oh and I'm dosing with coppersafe cuz I think Finfin has ich! Could that be it?)
__________________ 20g 3 Swordtails - Starlet (f), Smrt (f), and Neo (m) 3 Sword Fry - born Apr. 29 to Starlet 1 Sword Fry 4 Peppered Cories - Hobbes (f), Wasabi (m), Mini1+2 (?) 2 Otos - Gabi (?) and Sonja (?) 6.6g 1 Betta - Finfin (m) 2 Black Neon Tetras - bleh, they're just tetras 2 Snails - Bozo (?) and Turtle (?) 5g 1 Dwarf Puffer - Weebo (f)  |
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04-28-2008, 08:06 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Houston, TX
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| If you took something out, then you lowered the amount of nitrifying bacteria in your tank, so it's trying to catch up. It'll lower itself back down, don't worry about it too much. Just monitor the levels.
__________________ 15 gallon - 6 Pygmy Cories, 1 Betta (f), 1 Dwarf Gourami (f), 1 Mystery Snail, 1 Ramshorn Snail 20 gallon - Growing HC 10 gallon - Ghost Shrimp to keep things cycled while the plants fill in 5 gallon - 2 Peppered Cories - until new home is done |
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05-07-2008, 08:51 AM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: May 2008
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| I'm thirding all the responses to your question... let the tank progress, water change if the ammonia increases.
__________________ Used to breed Angelfish, Bettas, Apple Snails, now culture corals and FW plants & enjoy the tanks below... 90g S.A. Cichlid Tankbuster types, 46g planted bowfront w/tropicals, 30g long planted w/tropical mix, 28g Bowfront SW Reef w/corals, 12g Nanocube FW Planted w/German Blue Rams, 10g Nano SW Reef w/corals, 5g Planted FW w/diamond tetras & misc shrimps   |
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05-07-2008, 10:03 AM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Southern California
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| As other said, removing the gravel/decorations caused the problem. The bacteria live on the hard surfaces, in addition to the filter media. Changing out those things in a new tank can cause an ammonia spike. |
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