Ammonia/Nitrate spike

[joshv155]

Upgraded 2 weeks ago to a 125 from a 75. I had a Fluval 406 and 305 that were cycled that I put on the new tank. Then added another Fluval 305 that had not been cycled.

I added 6 new fish. All smaller.

Came home today and my role fish who I have has a long time (2 years) was dead.

Ammonia is at .25-.50 ppm ..hard to read exactly in the lighting I have.
Nitrite is 0 ppm
Nitrates are at 60 ppm

Never had ammonia or nitrate this high. Doing a water change right now.

I'm assuming it is from the new filter cycling and the new fish I added...

Anyone think anything different or should I do anything to fix it ? I know is have to wait the cycle out....but anything else ?

 

[Andrew McFadden]

You must have cleaned everytbing in the tank when you did the transfer. All you can do is wait, use a good water conditioner like prime and water changes

 

[joshv155]

I didn't clean anything at all.....


Doing water changes everyday until it gets sorted out

 

[Miyavp]

You kept the media wet when you transphered it right? You didnt fill the tank then put in the water condictioner did you?? Chlorine kills your bacteria.

 

[joshv155]

Ya the media in my canister filters still had all the water in them. I didn't clean them when I transferred them over.

I did refill tank and put lots of Prime in it .....would that still screw it up ?

 

[joshv155]

I put the Prime in before starting up the filters again.....

 

[Miyavp]

If any tank water got into the canisters before the prime was added rhat might've done it. Idk I cant say. Mini cycle maybe?? My tanks just went through one.

 

[Miyavp]

What size tanks are these two filters meant for?? Were both filters cycled?

 

[joshv155]

Just saw this. My ammonia spiked one night at 4 ppm....next day it was back at 0 and has stayed there so I'm thinking a mini cycle of sorts.

The Fluval 306's are up to 75 gallons and I have 2....the 406 is up to 100 and I have 1.

One of the 306's wasn't cycled when I set it up....but I thought, maybe I was wrong, that the other two would make up for it and there wouldn't be an issue.