Hey guys I've made numerous posts about my ammonia issues I'm having in my 55 gallon tank. I've now had ammonia in my tank that day by day spikes higher and higher. I have done 50% water changes every day for the past 2 months. If i skip a day it will spike from zero to .50ppm in a single 48hour period or less. Its getting a bit much for me to grasp and deal with. Its actually quite frustrating.
I lost my beautiful jack dempsey and I don't want to lose the rest of my fish. I have a large oscar, a jewel cichlid and a silver dollar left. I've been using prime to detoxify the ammonia which seems to work well considering theyre safe and healthy looking. Once my jack dempsey died I almost lost my oscar as well due to the very low pH that comes from the prime.
To offset the primes low ph to keep it from killing my fish, I bought crushed coral in which I stick in a mesh bag and hang it in the tank. This raises the ph to where it is safe for the fish and has worked great. I've been adding melafix and stress relief to repair the damages to my fish from when it killed my other fish.
Now that it has been 2 months and my cycle should have been good a long time ago I don't know why this isn't working. I've added numerous doses of bacteria to my tank to help even before I put my UV sterilizer back in since the water was getting greenish.
I recently bought another 75 gallon canister filter which gives me a total of 150gallons of filtration for my tank to offset the large bioload of my tank. I literally don't know what to do anymore. If someone could please help me I'd appreciate it. I've tested the tap water here and nothing is out of order. So I don't know where its coming from. I'm about to start resorting to less common methods of removal like the ammonia remover mesh cubes by Penn Plax. Please help!
I lost my beautiful jack dempsey and I don't want to lose the rest of my fish. I have a large oscar, a jewel cichlid and a silver dollar left. I've been using prime to detoxify the ammonia which seems to work well considering theyre safe and healthy looking. Once my jack dempsey died I almost lost my oscar as well due to the very low pH that comes from the prime.
To offset the primes low ph to keep it from killing my fish, I bought crushed coral in which I stick in a mesh bag and hang it in the tank. This raises the ph to where it is safe for the fish and has worked great. I've been adding melafix and stress relief to repair the damages to my fish from when it killed my other fish.
Now that it has been 2 months and my cycle should have been good a long time ago I don't know why this isn't working. I've added numerous doses of bacteria to my tank to help even before I put my UV sterilizer back in since the water was getting greenish.
I recently bought another 75 gallon canister filter which gives me a total of 150gallons of filtration for my tank to offset the large bioload of my tank. I literally don't know what to do anymore. If someone could please help me I'd appreciate it. I've tested the tap water here and nothing is out of order. So I don't know where its coming from. I'm about to start resorting to less common methods of removal like the ammonia remover mesh cubes by Penn Plax. Please help!
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