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Heres your update: The tank I was having issues with has been staying below .25 ppm of ammonia! These past few days my fish seem to be more active and healthy! Ive been keeping up with water changes 10-20% just to be sure, but so far without even doing a water change it really seems as if my...

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I don't so much mind it. Almost "relaxing" in a way. Better than most other household chores.

I've tested my tap water it shows up at 0. I just finished an 80% water change and it looks like I'm finally near the safe zone, shows somewhere between .25 and .5 I'll do another 50% change in a little while. And ya I bet those water changers would be a relief on my back, its starting to hurt...

Ya ammo-lock claims to dechlorinate as well, however I haven't been using it for that. I would assume its working wonders considering I've had no deaths yet. I'm pretty good about staying diligent with water changes and testing the water/ vacing out the gunk at the bottom. Once I finish this...

Tried one, but the big kids beat me up.

Also, is using a mix of warm and cold water to get the temperature as close to the tank water as possible OK? I keep hearing that its not and the chemicals from the water heater is harmful to the fish.

I have been using an ammonia neutralizer but its called ammo-lock by API. I do realize this is a crisis situation, I just did a 50% water change, did my best to keep the temperatures the same, my thermometer read 71 when I was done and its normally 75+ so hopefully the fish will be fine. I'll...

My only fear with this is that when I do such a large water change, I can't get the new water the right temperature before I put it in the tank. The heaters stay on of course but I am afraid I will cause harm to the fish changing their temperature so drastically... edit: should I just do 2...

I will up the frequency of water changes, I'm using an API NH3/NH4 Ammonia drops test kit. So not letting the water I use for water changes sit for a bit with dechlorinator in won't cause problems?

I did a 70%ish water change tonight and tested at 3-4ppm now (test before hand was above 8) so where I'm at right now, will my BB start to come back assuming I keep it below or where its at?

This is my first post here, but I could really use the help. About 2 months ago I received an aquarium and started everything up. Although I may have thought I had, I didn't get the tank cycled properly before adding fish. My problem now though is that I have had somewhat off the chart ammonia...