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Darkstar356

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Ok so I am new with a lot of question! I have two tanks a 120 gal that a friend gave me when he left for Korea and a 30 gal I bought my wife 2 months ago. The 30 gal has three neon green black skirts and two serpae tetra. In the 120 I have one black ghost knife. I am not sure what fish to add to either tank. Also before I add any fish to the 120 I need to fix an ammonia problem. Last Monday I tested and I got 4ppm and have not be able to get the levels down. I have changed 20% of the water everyday, add stress coat, stress enzyme and ammo-lock that the store owner of the fish store told me to do. I still have no change in the ammonia and I am worried about my ghost knife. Right now he is fine he does not appear to be sick and is acting normal. Any help you can offer would be great! Please help me save my ghost knife!


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I would start by doing a 70% water change. What do you use to treat the water when you do a wc? Keep using the ammo lock in the meantime and do 25% wc's everyday until ammonia is gone. Was the tank cycled or did you just set it up and put the fish in?


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I use API stress coat, ammo-lock and stress enzyme with prime from seachem. Some sites I found also said to only feed the fish every 3 days until water levels are normal, do you agree?


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You can feed everyday when the ammonia level goes back to normal but in the mean time I would feed once every 2-3 days.
 
The only way to really RID the ammonia is by large wc as stated above!! Id also reccomened buying some bio media to house the bb that converts ammonia to nitrite and nitrite to nitrate. What are the rest of your params>amm,nitrite/ate, ph?


U want amm/nitrites to be 0ppm, nitrate is bi product of this that's not as lethal unless 80ppm+ all of which produce stress on the fish so to keep nitrates low! test and when it hits 60ppm do a 50% wc and repeat untill u know the schedule, my tank is 50% per 5-6 days.

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@F1 VET/ pH 6.7, temp 78, nitrite 0, nitrate 0, amm now 8ppm. I did a 40% w/c today, if my levels are not down by this weekend i am going to do 70% w/c (my siphon should be here)
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