How does ammonia grasp into a tropical fish cistern?
fish wee
All living animals (including fish) excete ammonia from their bodies as part of individual alive.
You do to, but yours is in your urine, and gets flushed away surrounded by the toilet. Fish dont have toilets, so they end up swimming around in their spend foolishly, hence the need for biological filtering and water change in a fish tank.
Ian
Various chemical processes produce ammonia as a bi-product
Ammonia is created from the mixed chemical compunds in fertilizer - so if you clean their reservoir regularly you won't have that problem.
Answers: Ammonia in the tank comes from fish waste, plant breakdown and accumulate foods (rotting).
Cycling the tank (allowing good bacteria similar to the Nitrosomonas and the Nitrobacteria to accumulate will in short rid the tank of ammonia. The fritter away, etc is converted by Nitrosomonas to Nitrites which in turn is converted by Nitrobacteria to Nitrates the least toxic of the three.
The fish breath, pee and poop within that water, also uneaten food will cause a rise in ammonia...Be fussy how much you feed...Just a few specs of fish food at a time
its produced by the fish waste and other left over rotting
just keep your tank verbs if its small and if its large (keep it clean) but whether its still giving you problems there are treatments you can put in the water
That could be fish poo and wee.
As your fish urinate and poo they add more ammonia, the best road to combat it is to have a a good filter and clean the filter twice a week.
