Severly high ammonia help

[librarygirl]

keep doing water changes. 2ppm is still way to high. Anytime it is over .5 you need to change water and keep changing until it it's down below .5.

Anything above .25 can start to cause stress of fish, .5 is the absolute highest you want it to be. This is the unfortunate reality of fish in cycles. Nothing but water changes is going to fix this problem while the cycle happens.

Agreed. In a cycling tank you ideally want as low a level of fish as you can; you have a pretty high ratio of fish for an uncycled tank which is why the ammonia is rising quickly. So if you don't want to return some fish until the tank cycles, you're going to be doing daily (possibly multiple water changes daily) for the next few weeks. After the ammonia phase is the nitrite phase which requires water changes also. Try to get ammonia down from 0-.5 with water changes and keep it there.

 

[bkiggy]

Success !! We have nitrItes !! Finally after 7 weeks
Thank you Stability. The only beneficial bacteria that has worked