1ppm of Ammonia

[jlk]

Hi Aaron! Unfortunately, water changes are going to be your best bet to keep ammonia levels down until things stablize (hopefully soon!). Keep up the good work & this should be over soon!

 

[adadkins1]

Well, here it is over a week and I still have .25-.5ppm Ammonia, 0 Nitrites, and 10ppm Nitrates.

Will be continuing daily PWC's.

 

[jlk]

Im sorry to hear this! Unfortunately, theres not a whole you can do here other than staying on top of your water changes to keep your fish healthy.

 

[ejaramillo01]

Well, here it is over a week and I still have .25-.5ppm Ammonia, 0 Nitrites, and 10ppm Nitrates.

Will be continuing daily PWC's.

IMO you will never see nitrites. in other words, you have enough bacteria to convert nitrites to nitrates.... You are just missing a little more of the bacteria that converts ammonia to nitrites ( but you will never see the spike of nitrites).... As soon as you see 0 ammonia you will be done... Keep testing but don't expect nitrites...

I Did a similar process as you did, but I went from 26gallons tank to a 100 G tank!! I used the same filter , new gravel, same ornaments and moved all the fish the same day....never saw a spike of ammonia or nitrites, (later on, I added a bigger filter and keep the tank running like 1 month before I started to add more fish).

My theory is that if your old tank was cycled, you have enough bacteria to process your actual bioload... So even when you went to a bigger tank, if you did not added fish and moved the old gravel ... You bacteria colony should be able to deal with the bioload (same).

A mini cycle is probable because in some way you disturbed the bacteria, but you should be almost done....

That was my experience....

 

[adadkins1]

IMO you will never see nitrites. in other words, you have enough bacteria to convert nitrites to nitrates.... You are just missing a little more of the bacteria that converts ammonia to nitrites ( but you will never see the spike of nitrites).... As soon as you see 0 ammonia you will be done... Keep testing but don't expect nitrites...

I Did a similar process as you did, but I went from 26gallons tank to a 100 G tank!! I used the same filter , new gravel, same ornaments and moved all the fish the same day....never saw a spike of ammonia or nitrites, (later on, I added a bigger filter and keep the tank running like 1 month before I started to add more fish).

My theory is that if your old tank was cycled, you have enough bacteria to process your actual bioload... So even when you went to a bigger tank, if you did not added fish and moved the old gravel ... You bacteria colony should be able to deal with the bioload (same).

A mini cycle is probable because in some way you disturbed the bacteria, but you should be almost done....

That was my experience....

Thanks Edgar! That is what I figured since I had nitrAtes and ammonia but no change in nitrItes. I don't really know what I might have done to upset these dudes.

Hopefully I will make it through this soon enough. I am staying on top of PWC's and I haven't added any bioload other than my surprise Clown Pleco.