Ascensive Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 month old tank...constant .25 ammonia: reasons? hey people. ive had my tank up and going for about a month now. since starting it, i have been testing it, and my nitrates have been 0, my nitrites have been 0, but my ammonia has been a constant .25. i have a penguin bio-wheel 125, the filter and bio-wheel was taken out last sunday. i have a striped mushroom, and a frogspawn coral, 5 snails, and 2 hermit crabs. i put a few drops of calcium in the tank a week, and a couple drops of micro-vert each week. until a couple of weeks ago, i stopped doing a 10 percent weekly water chage. other than that, i just do weekly top-offs for evaporation. i am going to trade in a couple of my astrea snails for nassarius snails since they go on the sand and eat detrius. i am getting the 2x40 20 inch sealife pc with moonlite fixture to replace my 36w actinic/10k. i hope that is enough info to possibly answer my question. HOW DO I GET RID OF THE AMMONIA? the time taken to respond will be greatly appreciated. jAy Link to comment
Chronicles Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 You forgot to inculde your tank size. Link to comment
Ascensive Posted July 30, 2003 Author Share Posted July 30, 2003 it is a 10 gallon aquarium, 20 pounds of live sand, that aragonite stuff, and then a cup of sand from a LFS's live rock tank. jAy Link to comment
siskiou Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 Have you checked the water with a different ammonia test kit, or you could have it double checked at the LFS. Maybe something is up with the test kit... Siskiou Link to comment
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