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Yes. You need to do a 50% water change immediately. I'm assuming that you are using a dechlorinator such as Prime? If using Prime dose with water change. Ammo-Lock is another product you may use to bind the ammonia and render it harmless for 24 hours.
I'm having the same problem and I've lost half of my live stock. The water changes and prime I added only increase the ammonia. Yesterday I did 100% water change and added bacteria but this morning the ammonia is still at 1ppm. Any other recommendations
It was a orange linkia star fish. It only lasted 7 days and I'm not sure why it died. I had 3 fish purple fire fish, 6 line wrasse and a diamond back goby. It's a 28g nano cube but the fish are all dead
It was establish. The tank is 7 months old and yes it was cycle. I was doing 10% water changes very 2 to 3 week and I was testing it every 1 to 2 weeks and the parameters were normal. 0 ppm ammonia 0 ppm nitrate 0 ppm nitrite and ph 8.2 to 8.4. Salinity was between 1.025 and 1.026.
Yesterday I did 100% water change the parameters this morning are nitrite and nitrate 0 ppm and the ph went from 7.4 to 8.0 but the ammonia is still very high 1 ppm.
It sounds like you ar doing everything that you are suppoesed yo be doing. I'm baffled too.
There's one other possibility that I can think of and perhaps you were using some type of household cleaner in the room housing the tank and maybe some got into the tank?
Many people take their water out of the tap and age it for 24 hours or longer while mixing salt and heating it to allow some of the chlorine to gas off.