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Need ammonia advice asap
Hey, new to the forum, I have been reading this forum heavily for the last 3 weeks, but the events of today have made me need to post.
I have a heavily stocked 55 gallon tank, my two acara ciclids had a brood about 3 months ago, and im still not sure what to do with them, that aside...
My 55 tank is not cylced... I am using seceum Prime, and Stability as directed. I have a marineland 50 gallon filter, and a fluval 70 gallon filter going simultaneously.
This morning my ammonia was reading .2 ppm I did a 40% water change via gravel vacuum, used prime, and API ammonia guard as directed. I know that Prime, and ammonia guard do not remove ammonia from testing, but make it less toxic. I also have two rainbow sharks showing sigs of ich, and treated with marycyn yesterday. I also added 3/4 the recommended amount of aquarium salt and turned the temperature up, I want to acheive 82 (for the ich) degrees by monday, at 75 degrees now.
My nitrite, natrate, levels are 0
my questions, I heard that primes affect on ammonia will wear out in 12-24 hours, should I do a daily full does of prime until the ammonia is gone?. Stability is to power kick the bio filter, should I do an extra dose? Should I do another big water change. Again the ammonia is reading at .2 ppm, not the toxic .5, infact my API test kit is reading "safe" (<.2 ppm)
Fish are acting fine, except for my pleco which is scrambling mad around the tank like he is starving, looking for spots with food, it is a new tank (day 8 today) and there is not any algae im sure, should I add some algae wafers for him.
currently the fish are on a diet of goldfish crisps, tropical crisps, cichlid pellets, (all sizes, I have fry, medium, and full grown) and freeze dried blood worms, I thought the pleco would be able to salvage a diet off of this as well, but maybe not as he is scrambling from one place to the next breathing heavily,
all the other fish seem fine, except the sharks occasionally scratching
I want to point out that the shark has a few spots (<10), not full blown covered, very early signs of ich, occosionally scratching.
Hey, new to the forum, I have been reading this forum heavily for the last 3 weeks, but the events of today have made me need to post.
I have a heavily stocked 55 gallon tank, my two acara ciclids had a brood about 3 months ago, and im still not sure what to do with them, that aside...
My 55 tank is not cylced... I am using seceum Prime, and Stability as directed. I have a marineland 50 gallon filter, and a fluval 70 gallon filter going simultaneously.
This morning my ammonia was reading .2 ppm I did a 40% water change via gravel vacuum, used prime, and API ammonia guard as directed. I know that Prime, and ammonia guard do not remove ammonia from testing, but make it less toxic. I also have two rainbow sharks showing sigs of ich, and treated with marycyn yesterday. I also added 3/4 the recommended amount of aquarium salt and turned the temperature up, I want to acheive 82 (for the ich) degrees by monday, at 75 degrees now.
My nitrite, natrate, levels are 0
my questions, I heard that primes affect on ammonia will wear out in 12-24 hours, should I do a daily full does of prime until the ammonia is gone?. Stability is to power kick the bio filter, should I do an extra dose? Should I do another big water change. Again the ammonia is reading at .2 ppm, not the toxic .5, infact my API test kit is reading "safe" (<.2 ppm)
Fish are acting fine, except for my pleco which is scrambling mad around the tank like he is starving, looking for spots with food, it is a new tank (day 8 today) and there is not any algae im sure, should I add some algae wafers for him.
currently the fish are on a diet of goldfish crisps, tropical crisps, cichlid pellets, (all sizes, I have fry, medium, and full grown) and freeze dried blood worms, I thought the pleco would be able to salvage a diet off of this as well, but maybe not as he is scrambling from one place to the next breathing heavily,
all the other fish seem fine, except the sharks occasionally scratching
I want to point out that the shark has a few spots (<10), not full blown covered, very early signs of ich, occosionally scratching.