Coltrane9
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- Sep 9, 2010
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Quick recap:
55G, had African Cichlids for about 7-8 months, decided I want to do something more community-type.
So I filled a Styrofoam box with the African' water, and put the filter on that box, and let it run...
Then I emptied the entire tank out, hosed it down, put in new substrate, and filled it back up.
I then put the filter back on it, and let it run for a day.
I just assumed that that would work fine... But apparently not. I've got about 1 to 1.5PPM Ammonia right now.
Thing is, I tested our tap water, and it's about a 1PPM. Is it just that the 50Gs of 1PPM Ammonia was too much for the filter to deal with?
Should I now just wait? I'd do a Water Change, but I guess that won't help much. When I WCs before I suppose adding 5Gs or so a week wasn't enough to make a difference.
55G, had African Cichlids for about 7-8 months, decided I want to do something more community-type.
So I filled a Styrofoam box with the African' water, and put the filter on that box, and let it run...
Then I emptied the entire tank out, hosed it down, put in new substrate, and filled it back up.
I then put the filter back on it, and let it run for a day.
I just assumed that that would work fine... But apparently not. I've got about 1 to 1.5PPM Ammonia right now.
Thing is, I tested our tap water, and it's about a 1PPM. Is it just that the 50Gs of 1PPM Ammonia was too much for the filter to deal with?
Should I now just wait? I'd do a Water Change, but I guess that won't help much. When I WCs before I suppose adding 5Gs or so a week wasn't enough to make a difference.