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Hello everyone! I just joined the group in hopes someone could help me figure out what is going on. I have either 250 or 300 gallon tank. I have beautiful goldfish! My tank has been up for a few years. A few months ago I started getting ammonia. I couldn’t figure out why. The levels were making my fish sick, to the point of 20% water changes daily. For two months I did this.. Racking my brain, the only thing I could think of was my husband helped me clean my filters and MAYBE he cleaned too good and rebooted my tank.. Basically, new tank syndrome, or old tank syndrome.. Just my guess. So I thought I would try to ride it out and let it cycle.. Anyone who ever dealt with Specialty Goldfish know how easily they fall I’ll with any water discrepancy. To try to help them, I added methylene blue and water changes. For another month I did this.. I felt I was defeating the purpose adding M Blue and pulling out good bacteria with the water changes. So I put my fish in a kiddie pool in my kitchen in a desperate attempt to get them out of the ammonia and cycle my tank. It has been a month and 1/2, I haven’t touched the tank. It looks to be cycled BUT it STILL HAS AMMONIA… Maybe it wasn’t needing to be cycled, maybe there is a different issue. Help please!
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