ammonia spike

[zigrat88]

All - Had to put my main tank in hypo due to ich. Been fine for about a week but tonight I tested the ammonia and it's somewhere between .2 & .4. I suspect the snails and other animals in the substrate are dying off.

I did a 25% water change and the level remained basically unchanged. Should I just keep doing daily 25% water changes? Head to the LFS and look for something to add to the water to remove ammonia?

The fish seem fine at the moment, but I want to make sure they make it through hypo ok!

[MrPike]

You should never put your main tank into hypo. Inverts cannot handle it, your liverock wont handle it well, your livesand wont handle it. Hypo is for a quarantine tank thats setup with sponge filters and no substrate.

Get your salinity back up, do it slowly though. Over the course of a week.

[zigrat88]

Problem is I don't have a qt tank, so it was a save the fish or save the inverts. I really don't want to lose the fish.

With that being said what can I do to pull down the ammonia?

[jaw969]

I went to the LFS store and got some chemical....can't remember the name but it totally did the trick for me.

Good luck!