Made A Mistake Possibly?

[Dpayton11]

Okay so I have a 55 gallon tank with 2 filters...one is a aqueon quietflow 55, other is aqueon quietflow 75/55. I cycled for almost a month and a half-two months. And finally my ammonia was dropping within 24 hrs after adding 1-2ppm nightly. Nitrite was 0 as well. Well, about 6 days ago I did a 80% water change to lower nitrate and added 7 peppered cory cats. Tested ammonia the next day and it was still 0. A few days after that I was at a pet store getting some fake plants and decided to get 8 harlequin rasbora and 3 more peppered Cory's. So that puts me at 8 rasbora and 10 peppered cory. Well I just tested the water and my ammonia is at around .50 ppm maybe 1 ppm I can't tell...but looks closer to .50. Nitrite is still 0. Ph is 7.6. Temp is 80. It's been two days now that I've had the rasbora.

So my question is did I add too many fish to fast and that's why the ammonia raised a little bit? What should I do? Do I need to do water changes? Or should I give it a few days and see if my bacteria can adjust and handle the ammonia load?

The fish seem fine, their really active. The cory cats are eating well. The rasbora are eating frozen brine shrimp a little bit, but not eating flake really. Is this because their new and adjusting to the new tank?

I'm such a noob lol. Please help!

 

[iapple5678]

eh its just a little bump. I would monitor it closely and do some extra water changes. It will likely go away in a few days. Levels shouldn't go much higher then that.

 

[Wills]

I would do a 25% water change on top of what your already doing each week. Just to keep on top of that as its always bad news.
 
Should come back ok
 
Wills

 

[Dpayton11]

So you guys think it will go back to 0 soon?

 

[snazy]

So my question is did I add too many fish to fast and that's why the ammonia raised a little bit? What should I do? Do I need to do water changes?
 

 
You maybe fed the fish a bit too much?
And yes, start doing daily water changes to keep the levels as close to 0 as possible until the filter builds up enough bacteria.
Don't worry about removing the ammonia source for the filter bacs. You can't possibly do that by once a day water change because fish excrete amonnia 24/7.

 

[Nordk]

It ought to stabalize in a few days, just keep doing water changes until the filters adjust to the increased biolode. You've got plenty of filtration so it shouldn't be a problem. 

  Sounds like a nice tank, you should post some pics.

 

[Dpayton11]

Thanks guys. Ill do an extra water change this week. Hopefully it will handle the bio load soon. I don't plan on adding any new fish for a while until my tank matures a little bit.

And yes I will post pics when it's a little more complete. I need to build some kind of diverter for my filters because the flow is bouncing off the front of my tank and going down and moving my sand out of the way until you can see the bottom glass. So I think I'm gonna try to build a DIY diverter to redirect the flow. And I still need to add some more decor as well...it's kinda bare right now.

My stocking plan is:
10 peppered cory
12 harlequin rasbora
12 other schooling fish, trying to decide between rummynose, cardinals, or cherry barbs
2 angel fish
2 bolivian ram
1 or 2 either bristle nose pleco or clown plecs.

I'm learning as I go..hopefully it turns out nice!