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I seem to be posting to myself at this point, but will continue to do so in hopes that someone might come along with some idea of how to correct my issue. Decided to get a reading of all the water associated with the tank. This is just an ammonia reading, first (left to right) vial is from the...

Definitely nothing dead in the tank, all deaths were accounted for rather quickly after death. I get a tiny reading of ammonia from my tap, along with ~5 nitrates. But it's my understanding that .25 ammonia or lower from the tap should easily be dealt with by the biological cycle or the plants...

So, roughly 24 hours after the water change and test yesterday, my parameters are wacky again. Yesterdays levels shown in the above post. Today Ammonia: 1.0 Nitrites: 0 Nitrates: 20 Anybody????

So I changed the water (maybe 40%) this morning and tested the water a couple hours later and ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate all read 0. Any help or insight as to what is going on?

Thanks for the input. I thought what we fed the BB during a cycle was ammonia? And I've had ammonia in there since my problems started, and it's only gone up since the other fish have died. Here's a photo of the tank.

No, I add prime to all newly added water.

Will the fish food not add to the ammonia problem I'm having?

I have a 10 gallon, planted tank that houses just a betta and an assassin snail and I've been having some water parameter craziness going on lately that I can't get a grasp on. A little back story, tank has been set up and running/cycled for ~8 months. I've had a male betta in there by himself...

Can anyone tell me what is happening to my cycle, is it crashing....or? As of 3 days ago, you could see where my water parameters are at. Today I tested and they are starting to go haywire again. Ammonia: 1.0 (spiked for whatever reason) Nitrites: 0 Nitrates: 0 So I went from everything...

No fish, just an assassin snail, the last rasbora died yesterday. I want to add the betta back to the tank, but not until I'm confident that the rasboras didn't bring a disease of sorts to the tank, and not until I can get the parameters stabilized again. Water test today: Ammonia: .25...

The tank is a 10 gallon. He's just being housed in a 1 gallon temporarily since he was pretty ill, and I was having fish die in the 10 gallon he's usually housed in. The 10 gallon tank is the one I am having issues with.

I have a pretty deep, sand substrate, and I pushed the caps all the way to the bottom of the tank. I will try and get a picture of the tank tomorrow and post it, but it's just a single male betta in the tank, and an assassin snail. Water changes have always been 20% every 2 or 3 days. Right...

So, out of curiousity I tested the ammonia straight out of the tap and it gives the exact same reading as the tanks water. If it is in fact .25 out of the tap, how can I expect the tank to below this level when that is the water source?

I had 2 13 watt 6,500k CFL bulbs. I've since switched the hood back to a single T8 15 watt fluorescent tube. I've read that it could cause a spike like that with ammonia, maybe I overdosed, but from my reading the nitrates shouldn't have gotten out of control the way they are.

Hi, I use osmocote plus diy caps, seachem flourish. I also use seachem flourish excel for carbon. I have no idea what plants I have to be honest. I know there are two sword plants, hornwort, couple banana plants, java fern and a couple others that I don't know.