Cycled Tank - High Ammonia Water Changes Every Day

API test kit is the best IMO.Are you sure you are useing it right? 8 drops from both bottles #1 & #2 ? Is it outdated? Water changes are the best way to rid ammonia.If I were you and my ammonia was that high I would do a 75% water change now and only add the dechlorinator, check your ammonia reading again after letting it run for about a hour and do another water change if you still have a ammonia reading.I would not add the bacteria supplement and in no way add any ammonia remover.If you do several large water changes the next few days and don't add anything other than dechlorinator you should get most of what you have added out of your tank.
Try not to over feed and maybe even skip a day or two. Also are you cleaning your filter out? If you are don't.I don't know what kind of a filter you are running on it but if the pads get real dirty just swish then around in some old tank water and put them back in,but only if needed.
 
Ammonia Poisoning
Symptoms: Fish gasp for breath at the water surface
Purple or red gills
Fish is lethargic
Loss of appetite
Fish lays at the bottom of the tank
Red streaking on the fins or body
 
I have a top fin 60 bio wheel filter and I have the instructions for each test up on my wall so that I perform the water tests correctly. I just bought the test kit maybe a month ago. I am not seeing any of the symptoms of ammonia poisoning and my fish are active and eating. I have reduced the amount that I feed them thinking that maybe that I was overfeeding but I have vacuumed the gravel thoroughly so I am confused. I will do a 75% water change today. I am also thinking about taking out my undergravel filters (maybe waste is accumulating under the plates and not get siphoned up through the powerheads?).
 
I am also thinking about taking out my undergravel filters

Don't. As long as you do a periodic grave vac the UFG filters are preferable to the bio-wheel. Given you have UFG's in place with power heads I doubt the bio-wheel is doing much anyways.

The ammo spike is another issue since UFGs tend to be very stable biological filters. How long has the tank been running with it's current bio-load? Is it a new tank? Perhaps a fish die and is hidden somewhere?

In any case, the advice above to knock off the chemical warfare and just do water changes with conditioner is correct.
 
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