Ammonia level.

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Angel 0249

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Hi i am new to this site so please be gentle with me.

I have a 180ltr tank and it has been set up for 4 wks now.
My problem is with my Ammonia levels,here is a reading of my stats taken this morning.

Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrates 0ppm
PH 7.0
Ammonia 0.25

I have been going a 25% water change daily but nothing seems to bring it down.

Can anyone please offer me some advise on what to do,as i am concerned for all my fish.:help:

Fish in my tank are

2 platies
2 silver mollies
4 cory's
2 guppies
1 blue ram
6 zebra danios.

Thank you.
 
Can you give us those same readings on your tap water?
What kind of water conditioner do you use?
Are you using test strips or a liquid kit?

Did you do a fishy cycle or a fishless one when you set the tank up? I would suspect if you started with (are in) a fishy cycle, you will have quite a few water changes ahead of you.
 
Hi Bob and thanks for the quick response.

Sad to say i am doing a fish cycle.
My test kit is a liquid kit and i am using Interpet tapsafe.(is this any good?)

Do you think i should be taking out more water when i do the water change,or is 25% enough?

Will do a test on my tap water and post the results later.

Many thanks.
 
I would do enough of a water change to get a 0 reading on the ammonia. That being said 0.25ppm of ammonia is probably teetering on the safe zone and probably won't hurt your fish much, but the fresher the water the better.

Check to see also if you have chlorine or chloamine in your tap water. This may mean a call to the local water treatment plant.

By the way your fish will be thnaking you right now for all that nice freshwater you have been giving them.
 
ok, I'm still a newbie to having a 30 gal. long (see my post from Feb. 2007). But after losing fish due to introducing a sick fish to the tank, hence medicating the 30 gal. for numerous fungus, bacteria, and ick (for about 5 weeks), the ammonia levels were beyond the chart. This was the scenario consistently for three weeks while using API Ammo Loc and doing daily water changes. I finally started using Jungle Tank Buddies Ammonia Clear, continuing with daily water changes (up to 1/3 water), and started adding Biozyme with each water change. Now, after two weeks, the ammonia level is fine. How much damage the fish suffered is unknown, but they all are swimming along well. SO, keep up with the water changes and add a bacteria ingredient to level out the chemical processes. You may want to use a product such as Jungle or API to arrest the ammonia damage to the fish. Possible cause of the spike is adding too many fish to soon. Enjoy! Carole
 
Most folks I know of prefer Prime. Some test kits will registar ammonia, even if the conditioner has bound it to be non toxic to the fish, but available for bacteria.
 
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