Insufficient Filtration

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I agree... adding another filter in and of itself isn't going to "fix" anything... what are your other water perameters? generally biologically speaking your sump/filtration shuold more then handle your tank.. i have 3x the bio-load on my 120 running a 40gal home-made sump... and don't have any issues w/ bio availability... your solution may be as simple as adding more bio media to your existsing set-up or you may have something off in your current set-up thats easily shifted.. w/out knowing your water perametes, specifics on your filtration its hard to say why your getting ammonia readingsa.. you may also have decor,substrate, even a stuck peice of food in some random spot rotting causing the issue.
 
Let's just go back to the basics and explain filtration. This whole conversation needs a restart.

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So the water params are ammonia .25, nitrite 0, and nitrate 15 ppm. I have been doing 50% water changes twice a week over the past month or so. I highly doubt that there is anything rotting in the tank because i have been having problems with ammonia for probably 2 months ( which already killed my arowana a few weeks ago). As for the uv its a corallife 36 watt sterilizer.
 
OP asked if he should add another filter. He has a 40 gallon wet/dry that's filled with bio balls. If he's having an ammonia problem, he either has something in the tank causing it or a lack of bio media to break the ammonia down. I believe that that would solve his problem. The tank has been running for quite sometime now but his fish are getting bigger and he might be overfeeding.


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If you read my previous posts, my water changes are definetely on track as i have been doing 40-50% water changes twice a week. Also, to show that my water change schedule has nothing to do with the problem, i just did a 50% water change the day before yesterday (which was the second water change i have done this week), and the ammonia is back today.
 
strollo22 said:
OP asked if he should add another filter. He has a 40 gallon wet/dry that's filled with bio balls. If he's having an ammonia problem, he either has something in the tank causing it or a lack of bio media to break the ammonia down. I believe that that would solve his problem. The tank has been running for quite sometime now but his fish are getting bigger and he might be overfeeding.


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As you can see from my pics i just posted, the tank is lightly stocked and i'm also confident i'm not overfeeding.
 
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