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[angel4]

Fish dying

Regarding your first post an ammonia reading of 0.25 ppm is too high. This reefkeeping article ( http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-02/rhf/index.php ) actually recommends removing inhabitants from the tank at the 0.25 ppm mark.

I don't know why everyone missed this: Ammonia of .25 will kill most if not all of you fish.

Do water change, more than once if necessary and keep testing Ammonia. If it does not go to 0, you will have to remove your fish.

 

[trb]

Re: Fish dying

Regarding your first post an ammonia reading of 0.25 ppm is too high. This reefkeeping article ( http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-02/rhf/index.php ) actually recommends removing inhabitants from the tank at the 0.25 ppm mark.

I don't know why everyone missed this: Ammonia of .25 will kill most if not all of you fish.

Do water change, more than once if necessary and keep testing Ammonia. If it does not go to 0, you will have to remove your fish.

I may have read it wrong. It was close to the first color off from zero on my API test kit, a yellow green. Not quite exactly the color, but close. Yellow is zero. I tested it again after a 10 gal water change Friday and it was lower (more yellow than before). Then after the 15 gal change on Sat, it read zero a couple of hours later and also on Sunday (solid yellow).

Here are the charts:

http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Downloads.html

I guess ignorance may have contributed to the problem. I've never read up on toxic levels, but you would think the test kits would be able to distinguish finer degrees like .1, .15, .20 if low levels are so bad.

Oh well, live and learn. I guess next time a fish dies I'll test it immediately and change water as appropriate.

 

[wmatt140]

ammonia

He said his readings had been zero before and after. I assumed the ammonia spike was caused by the dead fish. Or maybe it was a combination of events, fish dies, ammonia goes up, ammonia kills other fish and so on.

 

[Tempset]

And thanks for fixing my quote, whoever did it!

Your welcome. (I'm always lurking about helping where needed)