Recent content by Sarah.hancock

Okay I'll look at for that one then. The ammonia levels are 0.25 so not massively high. How often would you recommend I do water changes to get rid of this?

Im on my way out now to buy an ammonia test kit. The tank has been set up for 6 years, I put in the recommended dose of cycle for the tank size when doing a water change which it says to do on the cycle bottle, would you not bother with this at water change time then? Thanks

My test kit didn't have ammonia levels on it which is why I didn't list them! I put cycle in as I thought it would be helpful if there was such a problem in the tank. Yes I only washed the filter in the tank water as I was changing it. What would have caused ammonia poisoning? Also should I...

Okay firstly I'm sorry if this is really long winded! Tank size: 125lt pH:6.5 ammonia: nitrite:0 nitrate:between 60-80 kH:120 gH:120 tank temp:27 degrees This first started when i noticed one of my barbs had a bit of finn rot, there was an open red wound on his side and some small bits of his...