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Ammonia is your fishes urine, The small it gives of is terrible and it stresses your fish. It also makes your water dirtier.
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How do you bring down ammonia level of water?
You need to get a water pump and filter for the aquarium at a pet store.
What freezes faster water or ammonia?
Water freeze before ammonia. Ammonia need high pressure to freeze.
Do you need to change the water in a fish pond?
Water pump does nothing for the aquarium. Aquarium filter on the other hand, does biological filtration for the tank. You need to understand the natural behind having a filter in the tank. It is for nitrogen cycle. Fish produce ammonia as waste, and some beneficial bacteria feed on ammonia will colonize the filter media. They convert ammonia into nitrite, then convert nitrite into nitrate. Ammonia and nitrite are both toxic. Nitrate is relatively harmless at low concentration, yet it can crash the PH and lower fish immune system if the concentration is too high. For a well maintained aquarium, we do partial water change of 30~50% once a week in order to keep nitrate in check, as well as to restore water buffer and minerals. To understand this better, you need to learn more about aquarium nitrogen cycle.
Do goldfish need filters?
Yes they do need a filter. People often think they can live with no filter in small bowls, this is not true. Goldfish are very dirty fish because people often overfeed them so make sure you have a filter. If you have a goldfish you have a Goldfish you should also have a tank at least 10 Gallons. If you have more than one fish with your goldfish or have lots of goldfish you need an aquarium larger than 10 Gallons so that all the fish have lots of room to swim. If your fish have no room to swim and have no filter they may be on there way to dying.
Is .5 ammonia bad for the water in your fish tank?
Any ammonia is BAD. Your filter is not working well enough. To keep thing safe you will need to be doing some extra water changes (maybe daily) until the filter is working efficiently. Ammonia should be kept at 0ppm at all time. It is toxic and leave permanent damage to the fish even if the fish survive it. Either your tank has not been cycled properly or the nitrogen cycle has crashed, or you have not cycled your tank at all. You need increase the partial water change to minimize the damage.
What is dry ammonia?
Dry ammonia is dried ammonia gas. The process of drying ammonia is very easy to pull through. You will just need to pass the ammonia gas through a tube filled with KOH or NaOH pallets.
Will a plecostamus live with no algae in fish tank?
No. What happens in a fish tank is that ammonia is produced from the fish's waste (it is excreted through the gills, and their poo and uneaten food rapidly breaks down into ammonia). Plecos, by the way, are very messy fish. There is no way to prevent this from happening, and ammonia is extremely toxic to fish, even in tiny amounts. So the ammonia needs to be removed. The bacteria that change the ammonia into non toxic substances live in the filter, so without a filtration system the ammonia in the tank will build up and build up, killing the fish very fast. In order to sufficiently dilute the ammonia without a filter, you would have to do huge water changes several times a day, and in the sort of tank (100 gallons) required to support a fish as big as a plecostomus, this would be logistically impossible.
Do goldfish need a filltred tank?
Yes they do need a cycled filter. Goldfish are amongst the dirtiest of fish to keep when it comes to the amount of detrius they put out and ammonia they create, so if there is any difference, they probably need filtration more than most other species of fish.
What if your crab smells like ammonia?
If the crab is in a tank, the problem is too much feces in the water. You need a better filter or less crabs. Crabs excrete ammonia. If the crab is on your dinner plate, it is spoiled. The smell of ammonia is from decomposition of the crab. Throw it away or risk uncontrollable pooping and pewking at the same time.
Do neon fish need air filters?
Neon fish commonly called neon tetras need both a filter and either an air wand or an air stone; they are not the same thing.A filter filters the water for things like ammonia and nitrites for example, and an air wand or stone is what creates bubbles to add more oxygen to the water
Do you need a filter with algae fish?
Yes and always make sure the filter is good and that the tank is clean. A filter does more than help in keeping algae out. It removes large and small debris, may have activated carbon to remove toxic chemicals and if designed right will be a place for your bacteria to colonize to remove ammonia and nitrites. it also helps to aerate your aquarium.
Will the fish die if the filter has gone off soon?
Most fish both freshwater and salt water can live for a few days without the filter on. But you need to do at least a half tank change of water every day otherwise the fish will soon die from the ammonia and other things in the water if its not kept clean until a new filter is put in the tank.
