nuclearbroccoli
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Jul 22, 2008
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I'm totally confused on this one, so I'll start at the beginning and hopefully someone can see something I'm missing here...
Equipment: 5 gal. tank, Elite Stingray filter, Air stone, 2 plastic plants.
Tank contains 1 Betta (Usually hand fed, very little food is wasted)
To start with, an ammonia test 2 weeks ago registered around .50 ppm, so I treated the tank with Ammo Lock for a few days until it tested 0 ppm. Then, about a week and a half ago I noticed some white fluffy (cottony even..) stuff growing on the gravel in a few spots in the tank. I inquired about it at the aquarium store and we both figured it was probably a fungus. I treated the tank according to directions with API liquid fungus cure (eerie green water, just in time for Halloween...). When the treatment was complete a few days later, I ended up doing about a 75% water change instead of the 25% the fungus cure recommended as it took that long to suck out all the white crap with the vacuum. I then had to do the same thing again to get the rest of it. Double water change would be the simplest way of explaining it. This got rid of almost all the green color in the process. I changed 1 of the two filter inserts in the filter, and rinsed out the foam filters in the aquarium water. After everything was back together, I did an ammonia test, and it came up at about 8 ppm!! My tap water does not have ammonia in it, and I used AquaPlus to treat the water, so chloramine doesn't factor in either. I've noticed this with some of my other tanks as well - A larger water change and stirring up the gravel a lot seems to result in an ammonia spike.. I just can't figure out what I'm missing here. I'm hoping someone can help before I kill the poor thing..
Equipment: 5 gal. tank, Elite Stingray filter, Air stone, 2 plastic plants.
Tank contains 1 Betta (Usually hand fed, very little food is wasted)
To start with, an ammonia test 2 weeks ago registered around .50 ppm, so I treated the tank with Ammo Lock for a few days until it tested 0 ppm. Then, about a week and a half ago I noticed some white fluffy (cottony even..) stuff growing on the gravel in a few spots in the tank. I inquired about it at the aquarium store and we both figured it was probably a fungus. I treated the tank according to directions with API liquid fungus cure (eerie green water, just in time for Halloween...). When the treatment was complete a few days later, I ended up doing about a 75% water change instead of the 25% the fungus cure recommended as it took that long to suck out all the white crap with the vacuum. I then had to do the same thing again to get the rest of it. Double water change would be the simplest way of explaining it. This got rid of almost all the green color in the process. I changed 1 of the two filter inserts in the filter, and rinsed out the foam filters in the aquarium water. After everything was back together, I did an ammonia test, and it came up at about 8 ppm!! My tap water does not have ammonia in it, and I used AquaPlus to treat the water, so chloramine doesn't factor in either. I've noticed this with some of my other tanks as well - A larger water change and stirring up the gravel a lot seems to result in an ammonia spike.. I just can't figure out what I'm missing here. I'm hoping someone can help before I kill the poor thing..