High Ammonia Help

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tlindsey said:
Pickup a bag from Walmart, will last you for a while. :)
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Thats what I do I need to go back and get some next week I'm running out lol

100 micron socks gets clogged pretty quick am I correct? it might be clogged and not catching all the debris you want. I don't use sucks just the poly fill instead. I have a drawer so its super easy to maintain.
 
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I only have 1 sock...but it doesn't get too bad...I thought about getting a new sump, and running 3 7" filter socks. I just picked up this 48x22x18 sump for my 300 reef tank .

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bacon said:
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
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Allright mate , doing a 50%water change in stages over seven days is no where near as good as doing a 50%water change in one hit, do a proper 50%water change in one hit and dont feed them for a day, check your levels again and if levels still high do a 20% water change every 3 days, and only feed them every other day untill your levels are zero, allso clean your filter and your sump and the pipe work ,
 
Neutralized ammonia will test positive for 24+hrs after using Prime, have you checked parameters days after a water change?
 
Poly-fil is used for mechanical filtration. I use it for the pre-filter in my pond and it works great. Prime is an ammonia binder. Add prime to buy yourself some time. If your bio-filtration is not enough, you could build a moving bed filter using k1 or k3 kaldnes out of a 30 gallon drum. You could also build a pre-filter basket that is over the drum out of egg crate/lighting diffuser and zip ties and put poly-fil in that. I use poly-fil as my mechanical filtration for my 1500 gallon pond. It works great. Just make sure your air pump is powerful enough. I would get a pump that pumps AT LEAST 25 lpm and use a weighted diffuser disc at the bottom of the drum. Bio-wheel are not the best biological filtration. I would recommend you get something better, like kaldnes.
 
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