Ammonia Issue

Thoughts on this hammer. Tank has go through the wringer this past week with a cyano outbreak, velvet killing all fish and 30% water change trying to get ammonia down. Dosing prime but still around .28. Not sure what else to do!!

🌊🐠 New little king settling into his kingdom 👑

A week ago he was hiding in the corner… now he’s exploring the whole tank, playing with the sand, and already begging for food 😂

Still cycling the tank slowly and carefully:

✅ Ammonia: 0

✅ Nitrate: 5

⚠️ Nitrite still showing 0.25

Keeping things simple:

* natural sand setup

* driftwood & stone

* pothos roots

* low stress environment

Thinking maybe 1–2 ghost shrimp soon for enrichment 🦐

It’s honestly amazing watching a tiny Flowerhorn slowly gain confidence and personality day by day. 🌱🐠

Day #7 🐠🔥

Unexpected update… the Flowerhorn is arriving EARLIER than expected tomorrow 😅📦🐟

The tank is still in the middle of the nitrogen cycle, but we’re seeing solid progress every day 👨🏻‍🔬

Current parameters:

• Ammonia: ~0.25 ppm

• Nitrite: ~1.0–2.0 ppm

• Nitrate: 5–10+ ppm

• pH: 7.6

✅ Crystal clear water

✅ Nitrites processing

✅ Nitrates increasing

✅ Heavy aeration & filtration running 24/7

✅ Pothos added for natural nitrate absorption 🌱

✅ Beneficial bacteria growing fast

At this point the tank is officially alive — now waiting for the nitrite spike to crash before full stabilization 💪

The Flowerhorn lands tomorrow morning before noon 👑🐠

So now it’s crunch time 😅

Day #6 🐠🔥

The Flowerhorn tank is officially entering the nitrite spike phase of the nitrogen cycle 🔬

Current parameters:

• Ammonia: 0.25 ppm

• Nitrite: 1.0 ppm

• Nitrate: 0.50+ ppm

• pH: 7.6

Good signs:

✅ Beneficial bacteria growing

✅ Ammonia dropping

✅ Nitrates appearing

✅ Crystal clear water

✅ Heavy filtration & oxygenation running 24/7

Now we wait for the nitrites to fall and the ecosystem to stabilize before the Flowerhorn arrives 👑🐟

Slow process… but worth doing right 💯

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My first set up newbie…. Currently finishing up the cycling process

pH: 8.0–8.2

Ammonia: 0 ppm

Nitrite: 0–0.25 ppm

Nitrate: 0–5 ppm

Can someone help me or help me create a day by day schedule to help my tank im dosing neophos and prime but my reading are

Salinity 1.024

Alkalinity 15.3

PH 7.4

Phosphate 0

Nitrate 50-100

Nitrite 0.1

Ammonia 0.25

It’s only a 52L tank. I have a frogspawn(closed few days) everything else is fine 2 clownfish urchin torch and mushroom

newest addition to the tank.

firefish gobby.

levels are staying 0 for NH3 and NO2

also 2 emerald crabs.

I just started a hopefully long hobby of marine fish keeping. I finished mixing water yesterday and added ammonia for a fishlesss cycle. I look forward to learning a lot here!

The tank has finally cycled after 5 weeks did a 25% water change to drop nitrate both ammonia and nitrite 0

It’s been a long journey since December 20th with my first saltwater tank. Many battles and an ammonia struggle but all a learning process. Fixed all issues and fish are thriving. Tank is finally going through the dirty phase. Nitrites and nitrates still at 0 and ammonia at 0 so hoping we start seeing a shift.

Little update from last post but ammonia after water change was still .25 so we did another 20% water change added fritz turbostart took out charcoal filtration and turned off uv light for 48 hours. See if we can get this thing to cycle properly! Day one and looks like we have signs of the dirty phase! Fish doing great still hungry as usual!

Ugh newbie here and this isn’t an easy hobby! Began the day with ammonia reading .36 did a 10% water change new reading down to .21 with Seachem prime dosage.