Please help, ammonia in Ray tank

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festaedan

festaedan

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My marble Motoro has been acting weird so I decided to check the water and the ammonia was at 2! I freaked out and did a 50 percent water change. I'm really worried. The tank has been running for two years so I know it's not because it's not cycled. Before I got the ray, I had fish that didn't produce as much waist so could it be possible that I just shocked the system when I added the ray? If so, will he survive and is there anything else I should do? The tank is a 120, it's filtered by an xp3 canister and I do a 50 percent water change every other week. The ray is an 8 inch male marble Motoro
What should I do and will he survive?
Thanks!


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The bacteria wasn't built up to support the ray bioload...Are there other fish in the tank? If so you will need more filtration and because it's a small tank things will get worse faster then if you had a bigger tank. You need to up the water changes to at least every 3 to 4 days as 50% every other week won't cut it. I ran into a similar problem with my 230 gallon but it was nitrates and not ammonia when adding a pregnant female to a 230 gallon tank with only a couple fish. I now have 2 FX-5's on the tank along with 2 HOB aquaclear 110's and do water changes every 4 days and this is on a 230 gallon.

Are you eventually putting the ray into a bigger tank?
 
Ok, thanks guys
I added another cycled xp3 from another tank and did a 20% water change this morning and the amonia has gone down to 0.75.
Before the ray, i just had a pair of trimacs
 
The ammonia has gone down to 0.5 and he's acting a little more normal except his tail is starting to curve upwards slightly


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Wouldn't hurt to do 40-50% a day for several days, bring the parameters under control asap. I have a 4x2x2 with a trio of Hystrix in, fairly young Hystrix, but I do this wc daily religiously to ensure as much as poss my water is good. It's a grow out tank bth


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Ammonia is down to 0 and the ray is eating and acting like he used to
thanks for all the help!
 
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