I just got a fish aquarium and my ammonia levels are high. What do I do??
- Thread starter Jim bean 20055
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sorry i snapped I'm just really worriedSorry, I didn't mean to scold you. Now that I realize it, I was. But just pay attention, and don't be ignorant, like how I started off
Excellent. No nitrite! Keep testing for it each time you test for ammonia. Nitrite can appear at any time while cycling.
Tip: small concentrations of ammonia like 0.25 ppm (maybe even 0.5 ppm) are hard to read comparing to the paper chart. Use another vial with ammonia-free water, like your tap water or bottled water, to compare your fish tank water against. Add both chemicals from both bottles to both vials.
Tip: hard to say from the photo on the exact ammonia ppm, it looks like 1 ppm to me but again, only you can tell, if your color perception is average, ordinary, not skewed or color blind.
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Now you have to add Prime or AmmoLock to detox the ammonia present in your water at say 1 ppm to be safe. Read the label on the Prime or AmmoLock, it will tell you how much to add to detox what amount of ammonia. Tell us this number off the label.
Tip: small concentrations of ammonia like 0.25 ppm (maybe even 0.5 ppm) are hard to read comparing to the paper chart. Use another vial with ammonia-free water, like your tap water or bottled water, to compare your fish tank water against. Add both chemicals from both bottles to both vials.
Tip: hard to say from the photo on the exact ammonia ppm, it looks like 1 ppm to me but again, only you can tell, if your color perception is average, ordinary, not skewed or color blind.
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Now you have to add Prime or AmmoLock to detox the ammonia present in your water at say 1 ppm to be safe. Read the label on the Prime or AmmoLock, it will tell you how much to add to detox what amount of ammonia. Tell us this number off the label.
Alright. Use it as a reference of yellowness to detect any greenishness that'd be indicative of a small ammonia concentration, like under 0.50 ppm.
No need. This is for later measures. Right now your ammonia is clearly readable.
No Nitrite is good, but we also need to know Nitrate. Very nice looking tank!
