High nitrates and ammonia

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Vilardz3190

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I've never had problems before in my 125 my nitrates and ammonia are both high. No stocking changes and tanks been running for a while. Should I do 30-50% WC daily?


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Hi. I am having the same problem. Just recently started a new 75 gallon saltwater tank. All numbers were good and added 3 damsels and nitrite, nitrate and ammonia were still at zero so I added 4 clown fish 2 days ago and now the ammonia is off the chart. Any suggestions? Fish are looking stressed. I added ammonia lock and waited 24 hours but ammonia was still very high so I changed 50% of water. If ammonia is still high what should I do?
 
A couple of days ago i did a huge water change (80%) and change the cartridges on one of my filters and that caused a mini cycle. My ammonia levels were a little high. So the next day I did a 25% water change and added API Quick Start. This fixed my ammonia issue.
 
Ok I'll do the same. I bought this stuff called safestart by tetra.


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Peg said:
Hi. I am having the same problem. Just recently started a new 75 gallon saltwater tank. All numbers were good and added 3 damsels and nitrite, nitrate and ammonia were still at zero so I added 4 clown fish 2 days ago and now the ammonia is off the chart. Any suggestions? Fish are looking stressed. I added ammonia lock and waited 24 hours but ammonia was still very high so I changed 50% of water. If ammonia is still high what should I do?
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Was this tank even cycled?
 
Vilardz3190 said:
I've never had problems before in my 125 my nitrates and ammonia are both high. No stocking changes and tanks been running for a while. Should I do 30-50% WC daily?


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Could be multiple reasons why your ammonia is out of control, but sounds like for whatever reason your bb colony collapsed. First order of business is daily water changes (40%-50%); second, clean everything and get rid of existing mechanical filter(s) and replace with new ones.
 
Highly recommend you guys switch to Seachem Prime
 
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