Honeybee_raby
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I have a what I thought was a cycled 20 gallon tall tank with 2 juvi axolotls. The tank was a fish in cycle and I watched the whole process
(this may not be your method of cycling but it's what I did. I love everyone here for always being able to help bUT the whole fish less or fish in cycling debate gets old)
Well, I got them about 3 weeks ago, watched for spike in ammonia and nothing, at week 2 I left to go camping and my boyfriend was watching my animals and when I came back there seemed to be absolutely nothing wrong, they were active eating etc and they still were today! What I'm getting at is I tested the ammonia on all of my tanks (that's all I got to before I went into shock) and saw that my axolotls tank was at 8.0 ppm!! They were acting fine I immediately cooled down my spare 10g planted to 63 made sure it stayed there then moved them over until I figure this out.
Was it just too much for the newly cycled tank? What do I need to do now? Please help I can't belive that the ammonia was that high and they showed absolutely no signs of distress..
(this may not be your method of cycling but it's what I did. I love everyone here for always being able to help bUT the whole fish less or fish in cycling debate gets old)
Well, I got them about 3 weeks ago, watched for spike in ammonia and nothing, at week 2 I left to go camping and my boyfriend was watching my animals and when I came back there seemed to be absolutely nothing wrong, they were active eating etc and they still were today! What I'm getting at is I tested the ammonia on all of my tanks (that's all I got to before I went into shock) and saw that my axolotls tank was at 8.0 ppm!! They were acting fine I immediately cooled down my spare 10g planted to 63 made sure it stayed there then moved them over until I figure this out.
Was it just too much for the newly cycled tank? What do I need to do now? Please help I can't belive that the ammonia was that high and they showed absolutely no signs of distress..