Ammonia overdose .. crap

[Kinbote]

I've actually heard using ammonia drops helps for a quicker cycle, allows you to control how much ammonia instead of the guesswork of adding a prawn or fish food.

Prawns and fish food also provide nice food sources for opportunistic saprolegnia and columnaris, which isn't something you want in a tank that you're about to introduce necessarily stressed fish into.

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

I suggest that you add two drops of ammonia to a gallon of water and then test the water. Repeat the process until you know how many drops of ammonia it takes to get a reading of 4 ppm. You should be able to then figure out how much ammonia to put in your tank to get a reading of 4 ppm.

+1 for good advice

 

[suds1421]

When I did my filters I used a syringe that they use for children's medicine. I put 8mls in 26 gallons of water, the ammonia was off of the chart above 8.0 but the filters processed it in 12-18 hours every day.

 

[SCGeordie]

One of the best investments I made was a dosing syringe.
Goes up to 10ml. on the graduated cylinder.
Takes all the guess work out of the deal.
Seems you got your tank under control.
Good luck on your cycle.

+1 for this - Whenever I'm in my local Rite-Aid I take all the dosing syringes they have, at 99c each I use them for water testing, dosing amm on new tanks, collecting bbs and feeding them to fry and when the numbers wear off I half fill with bbs and freeze them.