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Yep, and generally the faster a plant grows, the faster it will use up ammonia and other waste products
 
How long has this tank been running? If you have ammonia in your tank, the tank could be going through a mini-cycle. I suggest you look into why you have ammonia consistently present in your tank.
 
I had a mini cycle happen when I was new to the hobby. Im pretty sure it was from improperly cleaning my canister. I cleaned off the media in cold tap water. I think I had killed a bunch of the bio load when I did this.
 
yes plants will help, but they won't save your fish if not corrected. large wc's are better and you need to find out why you have ammonia in the first place.
 
I just thought I'd clarify something about live plants using ammonia as I recently had a discussion about it. Just in case anyone else gets into a discussion about whether plants use ammonia and someone decides to tell you they don't use ammonia(NH3) know that what plants actually use is ammonium(NH4). However what we actually refer to as ammonia in our fish tanks is the total ammonia nitrogen(TAN). The majority of the total ammonia nitrogen is actually ammonium(NH4). So if anyone decides to tell you plants don't take ammonia, they're actually refering to the less than 1% of NH3 that composes the total ammonia nitrogen in our ammonia test reading. just thought i'd clarify because I recently got into a discussion where someone very rudely told me plants do not use ammonia on another forum.
 
ty all 4 the info i had an id shark and a plocostomus in a 29g 4 about a month
then i got rid of them and now want to use it 4 breeding
i have ammonia strips and it was high
i am trying to breed glofish witch is a zebra any help would be nice ty
 
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