4.0 ppm amonia

[bathawk]

I have a little 24 LT tank which I keep feeder ghost schrimp there is a sponge filter in there as well . Any way last september the schrimp started dying off so removed them and fed them to my fish.I left the filter running so today I thought lets test the water and it was reading 4.0 ppm amonia so the hank has amonia from september to now so it hasn't cyled even though there is a sponge filter in there.

 

[tlindsey]

I have a little 24 LT tank which I keep feeder ghost schrimp there is a sponge filter in there as well . Any way last september the schrimp started dying off so removed them and fed them to my fish.I left the filter running so today I thought lets test the water and it was reading 4.0 ppm amonia so the hank has amonia from september to now so it hasn't cyled even though there is a sponge filter in there.

Possibly missed a shrimp and it recently died. Bacteria on sponge died as well.

 

[TheWolfman]

If you haven’t had anything in the tank since September then your tank is no longer cycled. 4 ppm of ammonia is lethal to fish. I would take some media from your other aquarium and put it in to help kickstart your cycle again before you try and add anything to that tank.

 

[Mitchell The Monster]

I say big water change and restart the cycle.

 

[bathawk]

not putting any fish in it i use it for feeder schrimp what i am saying is while the schrimp were in there the tank amonia built up the tank was cycled but had an amonia spike may be a schrimp gut stuck in the filter and died there has not been any thing in the tank since september surely the amonia should have been gone by now so I am wondering how could amonia be in a tank for four months with nothing live in the tank