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How Long Before Fish Recuperates From Excess Ammonia ?

Aquaboy — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:30:08 +0000

Hi. We have a Betta in a 5 gallon tank and he’s been doing great for almost 1.5 years. My son recently cleaned out the whole tank and the fish has been listless and not swimming around as much as usual. He would also lie on the bottom of the tank and then quickly dart [...]

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How to get started with my pure ammonia?

Aquaboy — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:51:27 +0000

Question by ddog: How to get started with my pure ammonia? ok i bought ammonia called goldex from canadian tire and many have used it and have had success. It says it contains to phosphates or additives and it does have an ingredient label but a lot of people have used this one. So im [...]

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How do I fishless cycle a 30 gallon with ammonia?

Aquaboy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:16:16 +0000

I have an empty 30 gallon right now. This is my first fish tank. 1 Is it okay if I add substrate after the cycle or during or will there be any changes? 2 My main question is how much pure ammonia EXACTLY do I add to the water? I have a testing kit 3 [...]

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does real plant help you reduce ammonia and nitrite in water fish tank?

Aquaboy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:07:30 +0000

does it also change the ammonia and nitirte to nitrate. does real plant help you reduce ammonia and nitrite in water fish tank? is a post from: Tons of information at Aquarium Fish Blog

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What could have caused the high ammonia levels in my aquarium?

Aquaboy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:11:57 +0000

I have a 35 gallon freshwater aquarium. I’ve had it for a number of months. I do about a 50% water change once a week, or every couple of weeks. I also have a test kit so that I can test ammonia, nitrite, etc. My question: I found one of my angel fish dead on [...]

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My new fish tank has been up for 2 weeks and I have no ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate readings. What do I do?

Aquaboy — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:10:47 +0000

I’m guessing I just have to wait it out, but I am not sure. I have 3 pristella tetras (x-ray) and they look healthy. 2 of the 3 have really red tails and the other looks OK, just doesn’t have the color in the tail that the others do… I’m guessing I just have to [...]

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fish discoloration because of high ammonia?

Aquaboy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:10:12 +0000

i cycled my fishtank with fish and one of my cory catfish turned sort of pale. It might of been because of high amonia levels . I finished cycling the tank and everything is fine. Would regain his color and would his gills keep buring. Is there any medication for something like that fish discoloration [...]

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Cloudy Aquarium after ammonia removal?

Aquaboy — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:09:36 +0000

I have a filtered and heated 10 gallon with a betta on one side of the divider and a juvenile dwarf puffer on the other side with some ghost shrimp. I did a 30 percent water change on Monday, and yesterday my ammonia was around a whopping 2.0. I hurriedly made my way to wal-mart, [...]

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Question about cycling and ammonia!?

Aquaboy — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:08:55 +0000

My tank still has 0.5 ppm ammonia despite me conducting a 30% water change this afternoon. However, my tank is NOT completely cycled and is in the process of cycling. I have added Stress-Zyme in order to boost the cycle and make it faster. However, under the “Starting the Nitrogen Cycle” section of the book [...]

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How long does it take for ammonia levels to rise?

Aquaboy — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:04:59 +0000

I’ve been doing a fish less cycle adding fish food for 4 days and the readings still say 0.25 ppm…I also added stress zyme last week. Does it take a while for it to go up? And how much should it go up to for me to stop feeding the tank? Do i cut the [...]

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