High Ammonia Help

[bacon]

Hi , looking for some suggestions regarding my ammonia levels.

It is reading 0.5.

Tank is a 96x30x24 tall. (3 )1.5" drains and (3) 1" returns. I am running a sump, with two large bio wheels. A drain goes to each sode of the sump, and passes through 3 separate filter floss/felt material, then to the bio wheel. The 3rd drain goes straight through a filter sock. I also have an FX6 on the tank. I also run purigen and chemi elite in the sump.

I use rodi water (and have for the last 5 years). I have been performing 50% water changes, butnbroken down throughout the week, since my ro storage container doesn't hold 150gal.

I have 2, 8" temensis, 1 6" orino and 1 20" florida gar. They are fed massivore 1x per day.

Thinking I may need to find a larger ro container to allow for larger water changes.

Thoughts?

Thanks

 

[bacon]

This shows a pic of the filtration set up on page 2.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/used-325-question.597114/page-2

 

[Dee eng]

It's fine bro! You're over reacting. Mine always reads around 0.5, unless you plan on doing 100% wc.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

It's fine bro! You're over reacting. Mine always reads around 0.5, unless you plan on doing 100% wc.

.5 Ammonia is not fine....my fish start flashing if my ammo ticks up to .25....

 

[predatorkeeper87]

Hi , looking for some suggestions regarding my ammonia levels.

It is reading 0.5.

Tank is a 96x30x24 tall. (3 )1.5" drains and (3) 1" returns. I am running a sump, with two large bio wheels. A drain goes to each sode of the sump, and passes through 3 separate filter floss/felt material, then to the bio wheel. The 3rd drain goes straight through a filter sock. I also have an FX6 on the tank. I also run purigen and chemi elite in the sump.

I use rodi water (and have for the last 5 years). I have been performing 50% water changes, butnbroken down throughout the week, since my ro storage container doesn't hold 150gal.

I have 2, 8" temensis, 1 6" orino and 1 20" florida gar. They are fed massivore 1x per day.

Thinking I may need to find a larger ro container to allow for larger water changes.

Thoughts?

Thanks

I'd clean out all of your filters, something is causing an overload of decay

 

[bacon]

Good call....maybe something in the overflow I am not seeing. Also, my substrate is pool filter sand fwiw.

 

[tlindsey]

Possibly your bio-filtration is not keeping up with the bio-load, try feeding every other day and see if level of ammonia drops.

 

[Ihsnshaik]

Clean everything with tank water. Use mag float to scrub everything off even in your sump if its a tank. My polyfill for my mechanical gets so dirty after three days I just toss it and put another one in. Tank looks clean but its not poop in the sump still means the water is bad and you need to take it out.

Do water changes three days in a row and see if that makes it better. Also if you can get some pothos it will be better before it turns into ammonia.

 

[Ihsnshaik]

Possibly your bio-filtration is not keeping up with the bio-load, try feeding every other day and see if level of ammonia drops.

Depends on how much media and such he has. I have a 50 gallon sump filled with media and I can have 10-12 large predators in there and my fish will be fine feeding twice a day. What I do is poly fill and change it out frequent and my levels are always in the green zone. Poly fill has changes my water clarity so much its crystal clear and it picks up literally every crap the fish takes. I got a trickle tower filled with bio balls and then sponges and a hundred or so pot scrubbies and more sponges.

 

[bacon]

Ill look into polyfill..ill take a few pics