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Another quick update - ammonia still off the charts. Took a sample of the gravel, rinsed it several times with neutral (zero ammonia), filtered water. Put the sample in a glass container with clean filtered water, and let it set for a few hours. Ran ammonia test on that water and it was 4ppm...

Quick update - Unbeknownst to me, my daughter put some water from a family friend's well established, healthy tank into ours Sunday morning as a means of populating it with good bacteria. So I guess I'll let that circulate for a week before I do a complete water change. I tested the tank again...

Gotcha! Let's keep our fingers crossed that the water change fixes things. I'll keep you posted. I appreciate the advice.

Ok, tomorrow I'll test my tap water & do a total water change. No reason not to try that. If this fails, maybe after a week, then I will change the gravel. Thank you for the recommendations for fish & shrimp. I think the kids would love to see little shrimp in the tank. We have some aquarium...

No fish. I took the water into Petsmart for the first 3 weeks for testing then just bought the strips and treated & tested almost daily. But after reading the forums here, went out and bought the API Master kit. Petsmart wouldn't even sell me fish because of the ammonia. So, a 5 gallon tank...

Nope, I'm not adding any ammonia. Is bottled spring water the best thing to use for the water changes? Substrate? Sorry for my ignorance, but do you mean gravel? The gravel I have was a bag of aquarium I picked up about 5 years ago from Petco or Walmart. Since everything is new (I even...

Hello! I'm so happy to have found this forum! I hope you can help me. For the past 8 weeks I have had an new fishless tank that consistently tests high for ammonia. Today I bought an API Master Test Kit to hone in on the problem. The test results are as follows: ammonia - over 8ppm (the test...