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Well I screwed up BIG TIME. Need input!


TomC1966
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So I learned a valuable lesson 3 days ago.  NEVER hold a container of small fish pellets over your tank while feeling.  Slipped out of my hand and lost 3/4 of a new container in the tank.  Huge ammonia spike.  Thank god I had another tank up and running I was able to pull the fish out and put them in that tank.  

l got as much of the food off the sand as I could but it got into the rocks and a lot went down the skimmer and into the sump.  Did a 50% water change when I saw the ammonia going up yesterday afternoon.  But even after all that the Ammonia still spiked up to between 1.0 and 2.0 from 0 and just wondering how long it may take to calm back down.  I dosed with more bacteria after the water change hoping the extra bacteria would help get rid of it.  Ammonia has not gone any higher and that reading was as of this morning at 6:30.

Thoughts on how long it may take to recover?   

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