Recent content by darkangel79

Yer i actually have ammo Lock here that i was using for 3 weeks to try reduce the ammonia but without success to me it seemed to give false ammonia readings due to the fact that it only locks the ammonia up it doesnt do anything else to solve the prob. Will see how it goes now that i have...

yer thanks 'dwarfgourami', i actually had someone come out and have a look at the tank, turned out cos of the toxicity of the level of ammonia that only option to save fish was to strip tank down and refill and change filter media but i changed the filter media to some well established stuff...

so do u reckon i would be better off putting some mature media inside my actual tank inside a stovking that way it actual cycles through my tank and gets cuaght in my new filter media or just drop mature media straight in filter area

:blush: thank u for your assistance , u have actually been more help than the lfs lol which these days doesnt suprise me in the slightest.

i am no longer using the old filter media in the new tank for that reason, i have the ammonis remover pad, a brand new charcoal bag and also a zeolite ammonia remover granual bag. its just really frustrating me as i have done everything possible. I am going to discontinue the ammo lock though as...

the media from old tank was approx 4 mths old and was filter insert for an aqua one AR126 it was filter wool cover attched to a charcoal bag. the ammonia remover pad i have in there now is 4 days old as they are recommended to be changed every 3-4 days to stop captured ammonia re entering the tank

yes i did have a 22L tank but upgraded to this one. yes i used the filter media from old tank hence the filter from established tank , it is rinsed in a bucket of tank water when i do a water change. but since ammonia reading came back so high have had to use a aquaone zeo pad ( ammonia remover)...

yer i have taken sample of water to 3 different lfs and all confirmed same result. i added my fish from my old tank which was 6-7 small tetras and was all running fine PH was stable at 7.0 and no ammonia , nitrite or nitrate. and have only ever added 2 new fish at a time approx a week apart...

:( hi there guys i set up my new tank approximately 2 months ago and did the fish free cycle, checked all ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels before putting fish in. i did a 50% water change 24hrs prior to putting fish in and all was running fine no probs at all until 2 weeks ago when my water...

hi there all, i am new to this forum, i am from nsw australia and have recently upgraded to a 2ft tank and been having a few probs