I havent had any fish deaths and i stopped using ammolock a week ago?

Question

ive reserched the product it will neutralize the ammonia until the bacteria catch up and eat it. It is just unionized ammonia. I have had no fish die i got rid of some of them but the problem is i cant tell how much ammonia there is i am currently doing frequent water changes to try to get rid of the ammolock. plus i cant tell what the ammonia situation is but im sure there is ammonia because i have no nitrites. I figured the nitrates i have now were from my tank cycling until i changed the filter and now i think the cycling process has started all over again. Basicallly my question is do you think my tank is recycling including all the information i gave in my last question. I have soaring ammonia no nitrites and a level of nitrates. Changing the filter would have killed the nitrite bacteria i must have had some bacteria at some point to give me nitrate

Answer 1

Unless you have a large bio load on a tank changing a filter alone should start it cycling. It's a large holder of bacteria but it grows all over the tank not just on the filter. You could have a small tank with 2 fish in it and throw 3 in it and put into shock until the number of bacteria needed to process the amonia then the nitrates from that grow.

So it's going to depend on size of the tank, plants in the tank, and size and number of fish.

Answer 2

It's a good sign not to have nitrites, because these are the ones that get convertet into nitrates

if you have none of that, then your tank is cycled

And never use any chemicals in your tank besides water conditioner or in your case you could use cycle for the cycling process

Just do regular waterchanges on your tank (25% weekly with a gravel siphon) and you will be fine




Hope that helps
Good luck



EB

Answer 3

Ammolock basically neautralizes the ammonia and it would instanly show a high reading.