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Thanks again for all the advice. I did another 40% water change today, ammonia is down to 1.0 ppm. I'll do another 40% water change tomorrow and continue to monitor.

Was feeding twice a day. Now I've cut it back to once a day until I can get the ammonia under control.

Thanks for the quick replies Sandra and Prairie. Yes, I've checked the local tap-water. No high ammonia in there, plus I treat all the tap-water with Prime by Seachem, which is advertised as eliminating all chlorine, chloramine and ammonia. In fact, I've been putting a few drops of prime in...

Hi all, I'm a newbie. Here's what I've got in my tank that's been set up now for 6 weeks or so: 37 Gal -5 Black Skirt Tetras -5 Serpae Tetras -14 Neon Tetras I recently started the hobby. Did a lot of research and reading. Decided to do a fish in the tank cycle. Started out with 4 fish...