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Subject Author Date ammonia kt 06-01-2006  Re: ammonia Tony Green 06-01-2006  Re: ammonia kt 06-06-2006  Re: ammonia Andrew Gratton 06-07-2006  Re: ammonia kt 06-07-2006
Posted by kt on June 1, 2006, 6:27 am Please log in for more thread options Hi We have a mature tank with four (tiny) aquatic frogs, 7 apple snails and have recently added five blue armoured shrimp. The ammonia seems to have shot through the roof, we are wondering what has caused this? The water is partially changed once a week. The shrimp are obviously looking very unhappy overnight and we have changed the water today. What can we do? If this helps we feed the snails vegetables, the frogs bloodworm and the shrimp crumbled fish flakes. Please help! Kate Posted by Tony Green on June 1, 2006, 7:43 am Please log in for more thread options kt wrote: > Hi > > We have a mature tank with four (tiny) aquatic frogs, 7 apple snails > and have recently added five blue armoured shrimp. The ammonia seems > to have shot through the roof, we are wondering what has caused this? > The water is partially changed once a week. The shrimp are obviously > looking very unhappy overnight and we have changed the water today. > What can we do? If this helps we feed the snails vegetables, the frogs > bloodworm and the shrimp crumbled fish flakes. I'd guess what's causing it is the waste products from your livestock. Have yougot a filter? If not, you need to get one urgently, along with a bacterial starter to get it kicking in as quickly as possible. Cut feeding either completely or to a bare minimum until the filter's cut ammonia and nitrite out completely. If you're using tapwater for your water changes, make sure you use something to neutralise the chlorine, otherwise it'll kill the bacteria in your filter and you'll be back to square one. -- Tony Green Ipswich, Suffolk, UK, http://www.beermad.org.uk * This has been a Microsoft-free message * Posted by kt on June 6, 2006, 6:43 pm Please log in for more thread options Thanks Tony, we've been foolishly rinsing the filter with tap water. A few days on and everything is still alive. Strikes me aquariums are a bit of an art... Posted by Andrew Gratton on June 7, 2006, 6:54 am Please log in for more thread options Hi Kt, You can can buy a treatment called Ammolock2 it will neutralise the ammonia until your filter has grown enough nitrifying bacteria to start the process itself, When you need to rinse your filter use water taken from the tank and just squeeze it through until filter looks reasonably clean then just pop it back into tak and it will keep evry thing hunky dory. If you have an air pump turn it up to its maximum output this will also help relieve the symptoms , and they can go a few days without feeding , they will scavange anything. this should help your filter settle down, Hope this helps Andy > Thanks Tony, we've been foolishly rinsing the filter with tap water. A > few days on and everything is still alive. Strikes me aquariums are a > bit of an art... > Posted by kt on June 7, 2006, 9:24 am Please log in for more thread options Thanks you Andrew that's great - will do as advised. Cheers