This is my temperate tank. It has rocks, sand bed, a fair amount of macro algae, 3 Ringscale Threefins (about 3cm, tiny), 2 Common toadfish (4cm, also tiny), a baby kelpfish (4cm, tiny), 2 4cm yellowtail blue damsels, 2 hermit crabs, and about a dozen snails (Melenerita and Austrocochlea). All beasties are looking happy and eating well -- VERY well, in the case of one toadfish. I have never seen a fish with such a distended belly! It got stuck into the sinking pellets before they sank :)Hi Is there anything in it?
I would think is my be the peroxide, if you stop that and see if there is any change,the only time I have had that problem was after dosing antibiotics and my tank crashed, but my ammonia was off the chart,This is my temperate tank. It has rocks, sand bed, a fair amount of macro algae, 3 Ringscale Threefins (about 3cm, tiny), 2 Common toadfish (4cm, also tiny), a baby kelpfish (4cm, tiny), 2 4cm yellowtail blue damsels, 2 hermit crabs, and about a dozen snails (Melenerita and Austrocochlea). All beasties are looking happy and eating well -- VERY well, in the case of one toadfish. I have never seen a fish with such a distended belly! It got stuck into the sinking pellets before they sank :)
I've got excess hair algae which I've been treating with peroxide for the last 3 days -- could that be responsible for the sudden jump of ammonia from 0.3 to 2? Doesn't seem likely to me, but...