murrayk123
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Just started a 15 gallon sw tank about a month and a half ago. I cant seem to get the ammonia down to 0. It stays at .25 even after several pwc's and adding activate.
murrayk123 said:Just started a 15 gallon sw tank about a month and a half ago. I cant seem to get the ammonia down to 0. It stays at .25 even after several pwc's and adding activate.
murrayk123 said:I have a clown, coral banded shrimp, 5 crabs, 4 snails.
murrayk123 said:They are fine. I had taken my water to lfs and all tested fine when i got the clown and they said it was cycled, so just wasnt sure. when should i do another pwc, just did one yesterday 1 1/2 gal.
huma-huma said:So essentially you had just CUC in the tank before the clown? When the lfs told you it was cycled? Just wanna make sure im completely understanding before commenting
huma-huma said:Did you consistantly test amm,trites and trates during cycling
uh.oh... said:How much are you feeding? And what kind of filtration do you have?
murrayk123 said:i just took the water to lfs bout once a week
huma-huma said:Usually whike cycling you need to test daily to get a good grasp on exactly where youre at in the process. Being as to how you really only have one source of bioload, the fact that youre BB isnt converting the ammonia leads me to believe either 1) you never truly went through the cycle process or 2) youre unintentionally doing something thats wiping out the BB
Sniperhank said:Get an API mater test kit and throw an uncooked shrimp in your tank. See what happens.
Sniperhank said:Yes, they will. But there isn't a problem there. They'll be full and it'll provide an ammonia source to see what is going on in there.
Sniperhank said:I'd run daily tests. If ammonia is high and things aren't being converted quickly, you'll have to do water changes to keep the ammonia and nitrites from killing what you have in the tank.