Is this QT tank size sufficient

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Eric1115 said:
I might have messed up. I think I accidentally dosed too much ammonia into the QT and killed the beneficial bacteria.

I thought I was using the 1ml and accidentally used the 3ml one. Ended up adding 15 ml of pure ammonia which I think equates to more than 5 ppm.

This morning I did testing and I read 1 ppm of ammonia, 0 nitrite and 0 nitrate. Which mean totally uncycle tank. What I am curious is where did the other ammonia went to?

Any suggestions anyone?

I can move some more sponge filters from other tanks but I am worry that might cause a mini cycle for my existing tanks.

Should I just add the new fish in the QT next week regardless, add prime and do very large WC every other day?

Or add the fish to QT or 2-3 days with Prime, monitor for obvious disease, give them a few days to recover then add to DT if no obvious symptom?

Or just float and add to QT?

Also, for the QT, what is the best way to keep it cycle long term?

Thanks
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Sorry, I meant float and add to DT.
 
I was able to get a tank up and running in 2 weeks using bottled bacteria and ammonia. If you over dosed the ammonia you might want to double up the BB.
 
Dalfrey86 said:
I was able to get a tank up and running in 2 weeks using bottled bacteria and ammonia. If you over dosed the ammonia you might want to double up the BB.
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I only have 2 days left before the fish arrive. I might be ok, not sure yet. I checked again last night and ammonia was down to .5, so that’s almost like processing 7ppm of ammonia in 24 hours. I just redose ammonia up to 3 ppm last night and will see if it goes down to 0 in 24 hrs.

Just strange there is no nitrite and nitrate if ammonia is being processed.
 
What are you testing with? Liquid or strip tests?
 
Another user had a similar issue recently. Shake the hell out of all bottles for at least a minute before testing and thoroughly rinse the tubes with water between uses (preferably RO or distilled) because reagent crystallisation in the bottles or dried out tank water in the test tubes can throw off results
 
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Hendre said:
Another user had a similar issue recently. Shake the hell out of all bottles for at least a minute before testing and thoroughly rinse the tubes with water between uses (preferably RO or distilled) because reagent crystallisation in the bottles or dried out tank water in the test tubes can throw off results
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Ok, let me do that later. QQ, do you think processing 3 ppm of ammonia is sufficient for 5 fish?
1 4.5 inch, 1 5 inch, 1 5.5 inch, 1 6.5 inch and 1 7.5 inch

Thanks
 
In that volume definitely.
 
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