Massive Ammonia Spike

[gazeddy]

just done a big water change on my 4ft tankdone a water test a few hours after and noticed my ammonia level is now through the roof 4mg/l according to my test kit. dont fancy doing another big waterchange is there anything else i can do to protect my fish

 

[mike455555]

ammonia removal in the filter? im not sure on other peoples advice on that

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Check test kit against other water sources to see if odd results come up, including the tap water?

Even Seachem Prime at 5x standard dose cannot temporarily soak up 4mg/l, if memory serves me right.

 

[gazeddy]

no ammonia removal media in filter. sadly lfs is shut now so in morning ill do another 50% change and retest tomorrow after noon just hope everything survives the night. will do tap water test now.

 

[gazeddy]

tap water has rather high ammonia acording to my test coming back at around 3mg/l

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Hmm, that does not sound good!

Have you got any other water in the house, such as a bit of bottled water you can compare this against?

 

[gazeddy]

nope going to have to try and wait this out will do a test at my mums later and hopefully bring back several gallons of clean dechlorinated tap water

 

[mike455555]

do you have any rain water? you could test ?

 

[gazeddy]

no i hadnt thought of that though. i have got 4 25l water drums though so when i go to my mums later will test and bring water home

 

[gazeddy]

mums water is testing 0mg/l in morning will do 50% then another 50% to bring levels down

 

[gazeddy]

all sorted got it down to virtually unmeasureable on test another 50%change is on the cards though