amonia just will not go down

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greenbud

greenbud

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It just will not go down no matter what i do. the only fish in the tank is a 13 inch tsn in a 55. tank has been up and running almost 2 months now but never seems to get the amonia below 2.0. I have been doing a 5 to 10 gallon watter changes on every two day basis for the last 2 weaks with no results. tank has a standard 2 large cartrige filter systen. have even tried filling cartriges with amonia rocks but no luck there.

any suggestion is welcome :popcorn:

side note if it matters a 10 gallon tank with 2 2inch ciclids was set up around the same time in the same area and it cycled fine. and so did the 30 gallon oscar tank sitting next to it with a 5, 4 and 2 inch oscar. also in all the tanks only leathery or hard thick leaves plants seem to live and grow. anthing else dies in less then 3 to 5 days.

Ps :chillpill:tsn is moving to a 120 in a weak so back off on the tank size coments for now:chillpill:
 
I think you need more bio filtration. I had the same problem and removed 2 trays from my FX5 and added more bio-rings... there is only ammonia after large feeding and no more ammonia the next day.
 
yah more filtration is what im thinking to I am planning on making a 20gallon sump in the next 2 weaks weak thats the problem with maine all the good stuff has to be shipped here.
 
aclockworkorange said:
You need more bio filtration. What are you using to treat your water when you do a water change?
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it is well water straight from my 30 ft dug well. tested and pure as it gets only problem is massivly low ph so have to add a ph boster to the chiclid tanks to make them happy
 
johno27 said:
If the ph is too low it can kill off your BB, anything lower than 6 is the danger zone
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yup just did some major research on this it seems that at 5.5 it goes dormant and at 5 it starts to die off. ok so we found the problem.....

Now how do I fix it with out shocking my poor fish
 
I had that propblem my ph got so low my bio wouldn't grow. added coral and got my ph up to 8.2 and my bb started to grow again
 
I have low ph out my tap as well and add crushed coral to my filter and/or aragonite sand to my substrate and my ph stays steady at 7.8 ish.
 
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