Hi all ive recently set up my new predator tank 900l it hosts a silver arrowana about 7" a 15" fire eel and two 4" retics im running 3 fx6 cannister filters on it caribe sea natural marine sand. Ive been hammering the food in to feed retics seem to me eating chopped earthworm and blood worm, ive seen a big dark curly poo come out of each. Last night one of the retics looked like it had darkened in colour still active. Done ammonia test which read 1ppm, "NT LABS test kit exp 10/2016" done a 50% water change stoped feeding today. Ive brought a new API kit which reads 0 but other kit still reads 1ppm. What are your thoughts? Cheers Si
False ammonia spike?
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you recently set the tank up? Then added all those high waste producing fish? that's roughly a 240 gallon I think, so I'm thinking youre tank isn't cycled.Hi all ive recently set up my new predator tank 900l it hosts a silver arrowana about 7" a 15" fire eel and two 4" retics im running 3 fx6 cannister filters on it caribe sea natural marine sand. Ive been hammering the food in to feed retics seem to me eating chopped earthworm and blood worm, ive seen a big dark curly poo come out of each. Last night one of the retics looked like it had darkened in colour still active. Done ammonia test which read 1ppm, "NT LABS test kit exp 10/2016" done a 50% water change stoped feeding today. Ive brought a new API kit which reads 0 but other kit still reads 1ppm. What are your thoughts? Cheers Si
Do you use prime or safe? Those can supposedly create a false reading as well.
I'd keep testing with the newer kit just to make sure, it could be the old kit being bad.
you recently set the tank up? Then added all those high waste producing fish? that's roughly a 240 gallon I think, so I'm thinking youre tank isn't cycled.
Do you use prime or safe? Those can supposedly create a false reading as well.
I'd keep testing with the newer kit just to make sure, it could be the old kit being bad.
Also stright hmaNo tank was set up for a year with mbuna cichlids in just stripped rock and fish
Ahh ok right on. then my moneys on the first test kit being bad.Also stright hma
Hoping so had a right panicAhh ok right on. then my moneys on the first test kit being bad.
keep testing it, use prime and safe though just in case its not a false readingHoping so had a right panic
