fish was in water with high ammonia for 4 months without being too badly affected, when ammonia was completely removed quickly, fish became sick like it is suffering from poor water quality. quality is good, no other changes to tank except for lack of ammonia. has anyone come across this before?
2007-05-04 20:28:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
Any big change that happens too rapidly affects fish in a bad way. It usually takes a lot longer than we think for a fish to really "acclimate" to new conditions.
I don't know that ammonia specifically has been studied, but when you do too big of a change from dirty water to clean, you can kill fish. This could be because the high amount of wastes also lowers the pH, and it's the pH change that affects them.
It could also be that aquarium owners clean a somewhat dirty tank too well, removing too much of the bacteria needed to convert the ammonia and nitrite to nitrate and the fish die in a few days from ammonia or nitrite poisoning.
2007-05-04 20:42:58 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the ammonia probaly build up over time so they were getting used to it. if it kept getting higher it would have killed them. Now you have good water the shock of the ammonia removal will do the same thing.
Change the water 25% every week, and slowly remove the ammonia. It basically went into shock .
2007-05-04 20:33:43 · answer #2 · answered by The Fish Chick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! the fish will become better... WAY better when the ammonia is removed. Ammonia is a potent toxin that is poisonous to fish.
2007-05-05 19:28:56 · answer #3 · answered by DiRtAlLtHeWaY 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is like taking the teat of the bottle with honey on it;s nipple addictive soothing through the amonia of time to take away suddenly as it was suddenly put in. adapability is where we came from
2007-05-04 20:40:35 · answer #4 · answered by dianarose k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will not affect much to the fish
2007-05-04 20:50:00 · answer #5 · answered by jimmybai123 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋