Ammonia Spike

[tom16]

What is ammonia spike?

 

[Truck]

What is ammonia spike?

where you add some live stock and you get a small reading of ammonia, or a small filter bacteria die off, resulting in a reading, sometimes followed by a nitrite spike

 

[tom16]

Thanks i was reading another post and was intrested in what is was

 

[fatheadminnow]

What is ammonia spike?

where you add some live stock and you get a small reading of ammonia, or a small filter bacteria die off, resulting in a reading, sometimes followed by a nitrite spike

Agreed

You can also have an ammoina spike if there is another source of ammoina in the tank, i.e. left over food, or a died fish that has gone unnoticed.

-FHM