Wednesday, November 9, 2011

About ammonia, can't get rid of it!?

It's because your tank is still mid cycle-you still have an ammonia spike and nitrite spike to come before the readings drop to zero.The problem you have now is by adding ammonia remover, which converts ammonia to a less harmful form which still shows up on test strips, is that you have no way of knowing if the ammonia level is dangerous or not. stop using the ammonia remover and use water changes to keep the level down-25% every couple of days should gradually get rid of the ammonia remover and then you can keep an eye on levels and do partial water changes when necessary until the tank is cycled.

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