Ammonia in my tank has jumped so high, what can i do to make it come back down again!!! Its around 2.5 ppm and theres a clown, coral beauty angel and yellowtail damsel in it. its a 135 gallon with 2 emperor 400's anyway to drop the ammonia? Thanks
Ammonia
- Thread starter Juthunter28
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water change. I think whatelse you need is something called ammequel. I hope somebody more knowledgeable will get on here for you but that is what I would do. I have been doing this for awhile but I just don't trust me yet with your tank. Call your lfs or your reef club and ask about ammequel. It 'soaks' up the ammonia in your tank.
Just curious, how long has the tank been setup? If less than a month and a half, you shouldn't have any fish in there while it cycles.
If they ammonia just spiked on it and the tank is established we need to figure out why it happened. Did you have a long power outage or disrupt the filters somehow?
What can you do in the mean time? HUGE water change, 50+ percent and be ready to do another after that if needed. I don't think that ammonia killer products work personally, but then again I've never really spent any money trying them.
Tank was established and did a sandbed swap and changed gravel to sand and kept live rock and everything a week ago, the fish are doing fine, very hardy, just curious as to what i could do if one suddenly dies.
Did I read in another thread that you swapped the crushed coral and put in the sand bed, and added some cocktail shrimp to the tank, like a week ago? Or was that someone else?
yep put 1 shrimp in and was gone the next morning ammonia was at like 3 ppm, then 2 days later it was at 0 and nitrite at 3 ppm then back to 0 and nitrates showed up at 20 ppm stable for 3 days so i added the fish in because they were in a 10 gallon that had a super high ammonia rate to begin with it was 1.5 ppm and then the tank jumped up to 1.5 after the fish went in, they are all doing fine though and everything has leveled out.