How do you take care of ammonia spikes?

[redtailfool]

Just want to know what everyone does..
I check my filter to see if there is sludge or trapped food particles
then i do a massive water change right away.

Anybody uses ammo lock or any other chems??

 

[piranha45]

massive water change. i havent had any problems with ammonia in quite a while though.

 

[iheartfishies]

I agree with massive water changes.

I think most of those chemicals are full of shiit and don't do much.

They can't touch what partial water changes do.

****ing lazy people and their chemicals.

 

[redtailfool]

LOL.. Yeah im afraid of using chems because it messes up the readings on test kits..

 

[iheartfishies]

I heard Chems can mess up juvie fishies growth also.

Unless that's just a myth.

 

[CentralMayhem]

water changes are my filter. no other filtration besides the bio growing in the rocks and wood in the tank. i use full spectrum power compacts so i have a good algal growth for my pleco and the other fishes munch on it throughout the day as well. that coupled w ith manual removal of the excess and 75% waterchanges weekly keep nitrates close to 0.

 

[MATTCB]

prime by seachem! noyhing works better!!!!!

 

[MATTCB]

not an every day thing, but the best thing thing going today for a lack of maintnence or new tank syndrome

 

[rayman45]

I HAVENT HAD A(damm caps) spike since i had my frist ray(i saved them tho) like a year ago

 

[missyb0o]

ammolock works ok and so does amquel. the only prob is, too much treatment will change the ammonia to chlorine if not careful. you also need to provide aeration too. the chemicals will suck the oxygen out of your water in order to neutralize ammonia. best course of treatment is water changes and possible a media bag filled with zeolite .