Ammonia Killer

[hughessomefish]

is there any common house hold iteams that can be used in a tank to get rid of ammonia,like i here bakeing soda works,does any one know?

 

[liamg1285]

large water changes will get rid of it

 

[OldMan47]

Baking soda is not used to get rid of ammonia, it is used to raise pH and KH. There is something in your kitchen that will rid a tank of lots of ammonia, it is found in the sink and called water.

 

[hughessomefish]

haha ok lol that works lol,sorry for my dumbness

 

[NathanS]

haha ok lol that works lol,sorry for my dumbness

You should perform large water changes, and you can also dose with Prime or AmQuel+, which detoxifies nitrite and ammonia so they are not harmful to your fish, and are more easily removed by your aquarium's bio-filter.

 

[OldMan47]

The commonly used water treatments will help detox ammonia for a short time until the biological filter has a chance to remove them. It does not last very long and does nothing to make the chemicals any easier for the filter bacteria to remove. If you are seeing ammonia in tank water to start with, the biological filter is not up to removing the amount of ammonia being produced. In that situation, only water changes will work and the filter needs to grow more capacity over time to remove the amount of ammonia being produced. On an established tank, a sudden appearance of ammonia means that something has damaged the bacterial colony or the stocking levels have been increased too far or too quickly. In this case my guess is that the newly cycled tank is not up to the current stock bioload.