Cant get water right!HELP!

External Since: Jul 08, 2003 Posts: 4

I have a 20 gal. tank with 2 small blood parrots and the ammonia alwys
reads high., but not way over the top, the fish seem ok, and I know i am
not overfeeding. the weird thing is that after i do a water change it
seems to be worse! I tried putting ammo lock, no help, i even put some
of those ammocarb rocks in the filter bag, nothing! Can someone please
help?

External Since: Sep 05, 2003 Posts: 994

start using RO water? or water NOT from your tap??

I would test your tap water, and instead of doing it yourself, take it to a
LFS and let them do it... if they get dramatic different results, you are
probably doing something wrong.. or they have different water there... You
may be able to purchase water, like 5g at a time, but that's 25%, so using
half would be ok and it stores ok....

If this is a new tank, you could be cycling, which, you can't really do much
besides small water changes during the first 2 weeks...

"mary" <mollybug.TakeThisOut@webtv.net> wrote in message
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> I have a 20 gal. tank with 2 small blood parrots and the ammonia alwys
> reads high., but not way over the top, the fish seem ok, and I know i am
> not overfeeding. the weird thing is that after i do a water change it
> seems to be worse! I tried putting ammo lock, no help, i even put some
> of those ammocarb rocks in the filter bag, nothing! Can someone please
> help?
>