Ammonia Problem

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kissme_419

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I have well water at my house. I have to go get water from friends and yesterday i cleaned my tank and put in new water. This morning i woke up and turned on there light and the water is coudy like it's full of ammonia. I've never had to deal with this before. One of my fish is dead already and i'm about to loose another. Is there anything i can do?
 
Now it looks like there's a bunch of bubbles all around the side of the tank on the top of the water. Is that a good thing? Is there anything i can do about it?
 
What kinda filtration and what kind of fish?
How big is the tank?

Test the tank water and test the well water each for ammonia/nitrite/nitrate asap!
Do a 50% w/c with dechlorinated TAP water.
 
It's a ten gal. tank. I have a 25 gal. back filter. 4 guppys, 1 serpae tetra, 1 bloodfin tetra, and 1 other fish (Not quite sure what it is yet).
 
Have you actually tested it?
 
for ammonia, no. I got some advice from some other fish keeper friends of mine and they all said ammonia. And i never got an ammonia testing kit. :wall:
 
did you add anything to the water when you changed it?
do you have another tank that you can take some biological media from?
 
nothing more then what i usually put in and no i used fresh water.
 
Whats wrong with well water?I do waterchanges with my well water on all my tanks.
If your friend is on a chlorinated public water supply and you didnt use dechlor the waterchange killed your biofilter and the resulting ammonia is killing your fish
 
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