CowFishlova
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Hello!
So I set up a 10 gallon freshwater tank 3 weeks ago and put 2 dwarf puffer fish in last week after doing extensive research on them. I have a Aquaclear filter with AquaClear Foam, Activated Carbon and BioMax and Cycle Guard. The substrate is sand and I have 4 live plants in the tank.
The pH is at 7, Nitrite at .25r and Nitrate at 0. However the ammonia is like 4.0 which obviously is not good so I put some Ammo Lock to make sure the fish are not getting burned. Then the water started to get milky and super hard to see through after 3 days of having the fish put in so I am assuming this is the bacterial bloom. I regret not cycling the tank without fish in it but 2 of the plants were from a cycled tank and the substrate so I decided to do it with fish in it (please do not bash me for this as I see the mistake).
So my question is will the ammonia go down as the bacterial bloom dissipates? I have not done water changes and have been only feeding the puffers once a day as I read that I should do that. I just am super worried about the high ammonia.
Thank you!
So I set up a 10 gallon freshwater tank 3 weeks ago and put 2 dwarf puffer fish in last week after doing extensive research on them. I have a Aquaclear filter with AquaClear Foam, Activated Carbon and BioMax and Cycle Guard. The substrate is sand and I have 4 live plants in the tank.
The pH is at 7, Nitrite at .25r and Nitrate at 0. However the ammonia is like 4.0 which obviously is not good so I put some Ammo Lock to make sure the fish are not getting burned. Then the water started to get milky and super hard to see through after 3 days of having the fish put in so I am assuming this is the bacterial bloom. I regret not cycling the tank without fish in it but 2 of the plants were from a cycled tank and the substrate so I decided to do it with fish in it (please do not bash me for this as I see the mistake).
So my question is will the ammonia go down as the bacterial bloom dissipates? I have not done water changes and have been only feeding the puffers once a day as I read that I should do that. I just am super worried about the high ammonia.
Thank you!