Dooboedoo12
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Have a 30 gal tank, 5 days ago my ammonia spiked to 8.0 when my biggest fish died. I was expecting it to rise but not to 8.0. I did a 50% change waited 24 hours did another 50% and than added natural bacteria to help. I waited another 24 hours and than checked. My ammonia was down to 4.0 so I bought an ammonia blocker to help and bought 2 African spears. I waited another 24 hours and it was still 4.0. I added another dose of ammonia blocker and waited another 24 hours I'm at day 5 and it's still 4.0 (my filter was cleaned 5 weeks ago but it's supposed to be changed every 3 months and I don't clean the bottom biofilter layer) (I also have hand fed my fish pellet by pellet so no food is floating around and no more than 5 pellets each so less waste). Any advice?