Playing Catch-Up with Ammonia

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lp85253 said:
use a big dose of prime (full tank)to detox the amonia....
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Sounds good. Going to let things settle as I left to work and will test everything tonight. The prime is the answer I've been looking for, thank you. I will also be switching to prime after a few more watchchanges as I'm almost out of api stress coat. Question, with seachem prime do I need to use any other product for stress coat etc? Or should the prime do what the api stress coat does? Thanks
 
Hooked up the 2260 with a gallon of Seachem Matrix and packed some spounges to fill the gap until I can buy more matrix, squeezed a hefty amount of bacteria out of my 2250 spounge into the 60 and added a bottle of Microbe-Lift Special Blend (75gal treatment) to the tank.

Eveything seems to be where it should be now. Will do a 50% w/c later today as I have not changed water in two days since I set everything up.
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Thanks to all who helped.
 
the prime should do it...you will register ammonia ...but it will de-toxify it to a great extent...if you have a freind who has a tank see if you can BOGART some media (cycled)and put it in your filter....should cycle the tank WAY faster.... :popcorn: looks like your ammonia is down,,, so your getting closer
 
3 days later and only one 50% wc and all is well. Also have decided to sell some of my stock and have more of a direction long term. Have a pending sale on the large flower and will be rehoming atleast 2 of my weeksii polys. That's a step for now to decrease my bio load while I get the money together for my next tank.
 
Have sold the two larger rays and added a gallon of sechem matrix as well as a bottle of bacteria to treat a 75 gallon tank. 3 days later with minimal feeding and I am still getting an ammonia reading of 2.5ppm.

Any clue as to why I'm still getting ammonia in my system? All uneaten food is removed and no fish have died to be decaying in some corner. Everyone is behaving normally and I see no visible signs of stress but I have never had this ammonia issue in the past no matter what I fed.
 
Most of the ammonia comes from the fish after they eat (not the leftovers.) Unless you have fry, I'd consider not feeding at all, until the ammonia was down to zero. Then, I'd gradually start to add food to the system. Give small amounts, followed by testing after 3-4 hours. If all the readings are good (0/0/<20) then ramp up a notch.

Whatever happened, your system just needs to stabilize itself, imo.
 
Drstrangelove said:
Most of the ammonia comes from the fish after they eat (not the leftovers.) Unless you have fry, I'd consider not feeding at all, until the ammonia was down to zero. Then, I'd gradually start to add food to the system. Give small amounts, followed by testing after 3-4 hours. If all the readings are good (0/0/<20) then ramp up a notch.

Whatever happened, your system just needs to stabilize itself, imo.
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Ok. Will try this. Getting some seachem safe tomorrow. As far as the safe/prime should I be dosing for my entire tank volume after waterchanges or just the amount of water changed? The initial treatment I will do entire tank volume tho.
 
aldiaz33 said:
"May be added to aquarium directly, but better if added to new water first. If adding directly to aquarium, base dose on aquarium volume."

-http://www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/Prime.html
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So I'm dosing for the entire tank volume every time even if I only changed 50% of water?? Hmm
 
I think you completely started a new cycle in your tank by removing the sand. Yes your tank being overstocked can cause ammonia but the fact that you had 0 nitrates showed that no beneficial bacteria was within your tank. Seems like everything you're doing is correct though by adding in BB. With that stock in a tank that size i believe you should be getting well over 20 nitrates. Great to hear that you didn't lose anything. Good luck!
 
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