Do a 25-50% w/c everyday until the benficial bacteria re-establishes itself within the filter. Which should'nt take too long because of your gravel already in the tank.....Another thing, we all have beneficial bacteria in our tank. But the water needs to be filtered thru the bacteria it in order to turn the bad nitrite and ammonia into nitrate.........
Amonia! Help!
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What type of bacteria medicine where you using? Some anti-bacteria medicines do destroy BB; you may have wiped out the BB in the entire tank, including the substrate;.... or you are trying to lead people to believe (incorrectly) that there is no BB in the substrate.
Hmm, lots of people chiming in on this one!
The one best thing you can do right now is to find a mucky old filter from another established tank and put it into your tank.
Other considerations: Never rinse your bio-media in tap water, chlorine kills it. Never throw away your bacteria, now you know why. Always dechlorinate new water before it hits the filters or your bacteria will suffer massive die-offs leading to ammonia spikes like this one. Don't follow manufacturers' advice about replacing media; I use filter pads for as long as they hold up, and even then only gradually introduce new media so the bacterial culture has time to grow on it. Feed as lightly as possible, your tank is overstocked with even just one clown knife.
The cement rings should be housing at least some bacteria unless you 'cleaned' them.
Ammo chips are stealing food from your bacteria. Don't use them. Ever. Water changes are more beneficial anyway.
I'm not familiar with the brand names and the designs they attach to, but remember that you want to keep a healthy colony of bacteria somewhere in your filtration, but somewhere else you'll want good mechanical filtration to remove debris. These filtration components can be shared, but both function better when the tasks are split up.
The one best thing you can do right now is to find a mucky old filter from another established tank and put it into your tank.
Other considerations: Never rinse your bio-media in tap water, chlorine kills it. Never throw away your bacteria, now you know why. Always dechlorinate new water before it hits the filters or your bacteria will suffer massive die-offs leading to ammonia spikes like this one. Don't follow manufacturers' advice about replacing media; I use filter pads for as long as they hold up, and even then only gradually introduce new media so the bacterial culture has time to grow on it. Feed as lightly as possible, your tank is overstocked with even just one clown knife.
1re filter(Weird cement rings"
2:Ammo Chips
3:Fluval Clearmax 2 packs
4:Fluval Carbon 2 packs
The cement rings should be housing at least some bacteria unless you 'cleaned' them.
Ammo chips are stealing food from your bacteria. Don't use them. Ever. Water changes are more beneficial anyway.
I'm not familiar with the brand names and the designs they attach to, but remember that you want to keep a healthy colony of bacteria somewhere in your filtration, but somewhere else you'll want good mechanical filtration to remove debris. These filtration components can be shared, but both function better when the tasks are split up.
if you can get hold of old filter pads and media great but if you cant you will have to keep doing the water changes until you have cycled agian mate, That seachem prime will also help.
tcarswell;3948797; said:
I said 99 percent of bacteria in a bottle not 100 percent. Seachem stabilty may work better cause it will help the bb that is already present multiple faster. If you don't believe me about the average bb in a bottle buy a bottle and look at it under a microscope they will all be dead.
There's a lot of things that play into this. First its going in a air tight bottle after getting made sets on there selves then get packed up delievered it sometimes a very hot truck goes to the store sets on there selves by the time you get it most of the time your buying a bottle of dead bacteria. The reason bio spira worked so well cause it was kept refridgerated
