Smells a bit fishy
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Yeh API one of the best. Good choice. Ok ammonia are too high. Don't worry about medians they won't get better with water that high in ammonia and nitrites. Ammonia and nitrites must be 0 for the fish to be healthy. Take another test and let us know what the reading is, but at 1ppm of both you will need to do a huge water change, 90% will just about get it to safe levels. However you will need to do daily water changes to keep the levels down to less than 0.25. So a reading of 1ppm, if you do a 50% water change this will bring it down to 0.5. So a 90% will bring it down to 0.1 ish. So test the water daily and do sufficient water changes to brung down to less than 0.25. Does that make sence?
Also putting your fish in a larger tank will dilute the amount of ammonia. E.g if your fish are producing 1ppm per day in a 50 litre tank, in a 500 litre tank it will be producing .1ppm.
I hope that makes sense. If not I will try and explain it again.
Let me know how you get on
Also putting your fish in a larger tank will dilute the amount of ammonia. E.g if your fish are producing 1ppm per day in a 50 litre tank, in a 500 litre tank it will be producing .1ppm.
I hope that makes sense. If not I will try and explain it again.
Let me know how you get on