Angela1108
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So we have a tank. It is older and established. Other than a slight nitrate (40-60ish) problem everything was good until today. I checked the tank parameters today (tomorrow is water change day) and I noticed the ammonia is at .5pm We had a snail die overnight which is what prompted me to check because I know sometimes a death can trigger a spike.
For now I added prime to make the ammonia not lethal. Now the reason I did this- I double checked our tap water and it is coming out at .25pm so I know it isn't going to help very much.
So my question- should we switch to using a mix of bottled and tap when we do the changes? We've never had an issues with ammonia and our tap only recently has ammonia. I also know bottles won't always have all the minerals and good stuff that are beneficial.
I double checked - no plant debris or anything else that would have jumped the ammonia other than the water change a few days ago and that one snail.
It's a 55g planted. Nitrite was 0 ph was 7.8 and the nitrate was 40-60ish again. (The chart I have they look super similar so hard to tell) and as I mentioned above ammonia was .5
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For now I added prime to make the ammonia not lethal. Now the reason I did this- I double checked our tap water and it is coming out at .25pm so I know it isn't going to help very much.
So my question- should we switch to using a mix of bottled and tap when we do the changes? We've never had an issues with ammonia and our tap only recently has ammonia. I also know bottles won't always have all the minerals and good stuff that are beneficial.
I double checked - no plant debris or anything else that would have jumped the ammonia other than the water change a few days ago and that one snail.
It's a 55g planted. Nitrite was 0 ph was 7.8 and the nitrate was 40-60ish again. (The chart I have they look super similar so hard to tell) and as I mentioned above ammonia was .5
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