Ammonia chemicals

[landshark]

OK...Im in my laboritory mixing a caustic ammonia chemical with my API kit...what do I do after I test for ammonia....can the chemical be neutaralized or can I just pour it down the sink? I have dogs so I dont want to chunk whats left in the test tube in the back yard.......

 

[mr_X]

What would you do with regular ammonia? Treat this the same. Down the sink it would go.

 

[landshark]

Thanks.....Just seeing the picture of the finger burning off on the bottle label kinda gave me the creeps....

 

[landshark]

If ammonia climbs to 1.0 in a 10 gallon tank how would you lower it? Or is it at a safe level?

 

[obscurereef]

If ammonia climbs to 1.0 in a 10 gallon tank how would you lower it? Or is it at a safe level?

You want your ammonia to reach 4 or 5 ppm to have a strong cycle. The nitrogen cycle converts it.

 

[landshark]

Great....but what If you got 2 clownfish in it.....

 

[MyR6Rocks]

Great....but what If you got 2 clownfish in it.....

Then you wouldn't add it to a tank with fish in it

 

[mr_X]

Do water changes to remove the toxic ammonia ASAP. Even some kind of water conditioner to bind the ammonia may be helpful.

 

[landshark]

My ammonia level is still 1.0......do you think my live rock,sand,and gravel is keeping it low? Its been 4 days since I first put water in my aquarium...my ph,nitrite and nitrate are all within safe parameters

 

[mr_X]

I would remove the clown fish immediately and let that tank cycle. You are just torturing them, possibly to death. There is nothing safe about ingesting ammonia.

 

[landshark]

Ok..thanks