Reef Discussion

Ammonia Is 2, Should I Worry?
My 60l tank is cycling. No nitrate, Nitrite is .5 ppm, but ammonia has climbed to 2 pmm. I have done 10% water changes for the last 2 days. How worried do I need to be?
 
Hi Is there anything in it?
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...
 

Susan Bates

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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...
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,