Ammonia

[schnebbles]

I have a 40g that's 8 months old. I think I was way overfeeding my tank and ended up with a starry blenny dying. Hindsight, it was high ammonia (higher than high!). I was being very lazy with my tank, I was stupid.

Anyways, that was last weekend and I never found him. I moved some rock but not all. I have been changing out 5-6g a day and using Prime but I can't get the ammonia down.

What can I do? It's probably around 1ppm. My fish are doing ok but it's affecting the coral.

I think it has to be the dead blenny (3") but I never saw a shrimp or anything eating him and I just don't know where he could be.

0 nitrite

 

[mcgyvr]

You sure you aren't getting false readings on that test..

I find it very hard to believe that one would have 1+ readings of ammonia in an established 40g tank when changing out that much water and using prime..

What are your nitrates and phosphates?

How did you know there was even a problem to start ammonia testing just the missing fish?
How are the corals being effected?

 

[schnebbles]

They aren't opening up - my kenya tree, my zoas.

It was as green as it gets when I first tested it. I had not been doing water changes like a dummy and I probably overfed way more than I realized.

My blenny was on the ground one morning and then he died. My clowns had been going to the top and I noticed it but like a dumba** It didn't click that something was wrong.

That's why I think the blenny is dead and decaying and every time I do the wc, the ammonia goes back up. I was being way too lazy thinking everything was going fine and lucky me. DUMB!

phos - .25
nitrate 10 (Usually I use No3P04 but haven't since I've been doing the wc's this week.

my torch coral is all shriveled up too.

 

[Troublekitty]

What are you using to test?

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[ReeferNoob4ever]

Do you have biological filtration? Have you done some major cleaning to your equipment yet? Is it coming down at all?