easywolf31
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- Feb 15, 2017
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Hello Houston, I'm having a problem with Ammonia and it's starting to worry me a bit. I always had 0 ammonia so I'm not sure what has happened.
Nitrite is at 0ppm and Nitrate 20ppm. PH is at 8.2. Kh at 6-7, Gh at 13-17, Aquarium is a 140 gallon with about 20 1.5-2" Tanganyikan Cichlids. I feed them at the most 2 times a day for 2-3 minutes each time. I've fed them frozen brine shrimp, crab meat at times. I've also added a new Sunsun 704b filter. I cleaned my Eheim 2217 filter the other day and replaced the fine sponge media with poly fill..I also bleach cleaned (very safely though, 10% chlronine plus 2 hours running water and drying 24hrs+ chlronine smell was gone) all my dead corals and rocks which were filled with diatom blooms after my completed cycle 2-3 weeks ago.
Here is a picture I just took. All 4 are ammonia tests.
First vial is my tap water. 2nd vial is a test done right after a 40% water change and 95% refill, 3rd vial is after I added stress coat + and full refill, 4th vial is a test before the water change.
What the heck am I doing wrong?
Nitrite is at 0ppm and Nitrate 20ppm. PH is at 8.2. Kh at 6-7, Gh at 13-17, Aquarium is a 140 gallon with about 20 1.5-2" Tanganyikan Cichlids. I feed them at the most 2 times a day for 2-3 minutes each time. I've fed them frozen brine shrimp, crab meat at times. I've also added a new Sunsun 704b filter. I cleaned my Eheim 2217 filter the other day and replaced the fine sponge media with poly fill..I also bleach cleaned (very safely though, 10% chlronine plus 2 hours running water and drying 24hrs+ chlronine smell was gone) all my dead corals and rocks which were filled with diatom blooms after my completed cycle 2-3 weeks ago.
Here is a picture I just took. All 4 are ammonia tests.
First vial is my tap water. 2nd vial is a test done right after a 40% water change and 95% refill, 3rd vial is after I added stress coat + and full refill, 4th vial is a test before the water change.
What the heck am I doing wrong?