dangit i think my bacteria died

[petitericeball]

okay my mom made me take my tank downstairs so i took it down and all this stuff.. this took like 2-3 hours now my ammonia is at like 4.0 and i fed the usual. i think my bacteria died

oh yeah i did a substrate change... the sands outside right now and its been like unwet without food for like 24 hours... it rained yesterday so that mighta helped... and should i try to get some sand in like a bag to get the bacteria back in or is it dead

 

[Sang72]

It sounds like when you changed the substrate, you removed a whole lot of the bacteria. Did you change your filter too? It's advisable never to completely replace more than one thing at a time within a week or so of each other. (e.g. water/substrate/filter) If the sand is dry, the bacteria are most likely dead. Can you get some bio-spira, or maybe a handful of substrate or used (still wet) filter media from a friend?

Otherwise, constant water changes, water tests and patience.

 

[petitericeball]

yeah... i didnt do anything with the filter except like 5 hours later i cleaned out the mech filter thing cuz the water flow was reduced so much that it was coming out of the space by the intake tube (penguin 125)
yeah i think its dead but its worth a shot eh but at least my filter is fully cycled now

 

[petitericeball]

okay i said this on my other post but here goes

i tested the water which was 4.0 0 0 then i put sand in in the bowl.. (bacteria sand) an hour later i do a 25% water change and test it

guess what it was





















0 0 40 lol it got reversed
from
4.0 0 0
to
0 0 40

 

[petitericeball]

misguess cuz i sprinted up here frmo the basement and i looked at test again its 7 nitrates (i ran up here and barely glanced at nitrates so its really 7 nitrates