Serious help with ammonia issue...Please...

[Bderick67]

Do as the above say!

Are you heating the tank to 80*? If so lower the temp... lower temps will allow more ammonia to stay bound and not harmful. I have had sucess with Prime after filter crashes to keep the fish out of ammonia shock and death.

You are showing nitrites so there is nitrification going on... try to get a handle on the ammonia first. Don`t rely on tests if you use Prime or something like. They test total ammonia not free ammonia.

Get the ammonia down and the other number will get better. Also to much water changes with gravel cleaning can be harmful as you remove bacteria.

For ICH the salt and heat treatment works well...

Two seperate statements same post, she has both problems at the same time. What are you advising her to do?

 

[aquanaut]

Two seperate statements same post, she has both problems at the same time. What are you advising her to do?

"In the middle of all of this, I had an outbreak of ich, which I did treat with Maracide (finished the Maracide about a week and a half ago)"

Ummm... yea. Ammonia seems to be the concern at this point not ICH. The Maracide caused or is causing what is happening... what is the life cycle of
Ichthyophthirius multifilis at 80*F when treated with meds?!?

At least if you want to attack me do it right "Why did you say nitrite instead of nitrate?"

Anymore concerns or criticisms feel free to take it to PM... no need to disturb the thread...

 

[Dr Joe]

"In the middle of all of this, I had an outbreak of ich, which I did treat with Maracide (finished the Maracide about a week and a half ago)"

Ummm... yea. Ammonia seems to be the concern at this point not ICH. The Maracide caused or is causing what is happening... what is the life cycle of
Ichthyophthirius multifilis at 80*F when treated with meds?!?

At least if you want to attack me do it right "Why did you say nitrite instead of nitrate?"

Anymore concerns or criticisms feel free to take it to PM... no need to disturb the thread...

14 - 20 days @ 80*

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[rallysman]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.. I will try that today and keep you posetd... one quick question before I do this though... when you say to squeeze the "sludge" into the new filter, is there a particular section I should be aiming for, or just right into the top? This is a canister filter and has a couple of layers to it...

As to the Nitrate levels, that was actually a typo... my nitrate levels are 0 also, not 3....

Thanks again!

Put it in the section that holds biological media. It may look nasty, but that's ok.

 

[Dr Joe]

Was there ever pretty bacteria?

 

[Mizzy]

Was there ever pretty bacteria?

Honestly... I don't think so... i didn't start testing the water for about a month or so after i got the tank... but i have never had a nitrate level... i haven't even seen a nitrite level... the only thing I'm getting back is ammonia and lots of it...

I tried squeezing sludge into the bio layer of the new filter... hopefully that will work, but I'm assuming that that will take a few days... i'll keep you all posted... thanks for everything and if you have any other suggestions, I'm open to them....

 

[rallysman]

Was there ever pretty bacteria?

 

[Sunpoe]

Was there ever pretty bacteria?

Whats not to like, single-celled sexiness if you ask me

 

[MrFisher]

The first thing I would do is sqeeze as much filter sludge from the 55 gallon filter as you can (without sacraficing it) into the new filter. It sounds like your filter is just not seeded all the way. That's a huge bioload to keep up with, so I would also feed lightly for a while.

If the Biospira isnt working, dont buy anymore. If it got warm chances are it's dead. Also, when you have perfectly live bacteria in another tank there's no reason to not use it! lol.

Goodluck and keep us updated, I'm sure you'll get a lot more info poured onto you.

i agree i think i would also use a little Amquel to help keep the NO2 not as Toxic

 

[Mizzy]

Honestly... I don't think so... i didn't start testing the water for about a month or so after i got the tank... but i have never had a nitrate level... i haven't even seen a nitrite level... the only thing I'm getting back is ammonia and lots of it...

Big 'ole DUH for me... lol... it wasn't until after I posted that I got the joke...