Help Please Asap!

[fish1031]

I just did a regular water change in my 180 FOWLR
I had water mixing for 48 hrs and forgot to test before i changed it
I did it while in the process of putting the water into the tank
I tested it and the ammonia reading was 1.0... added about 20g
The tank still reads 0 ammonia.
I changed about 15g fresh to try to get some of the ammonia back out.
I am not sure what happened... will the fish be ok?
Is there anything else I can do???
Thanks for reading!

 

[scsinet]

I don't follow... how did ammonia get into the new water in the first place?
Also, you say it was reading 1.0, then 0???
I'm confused.

 

[fish1031]

I am not sure how the ammonia got into the water I added...
The reading of the water I added (20g) is 1.0
The tank reading is 0... but i am unsure if it will spike now.

 

[some1fishy]

how old is your test kit? just a dumb question but that could be the culprit. if its freshly mixed water there should be nothing in there unless someting die in the pump aerating the water

 

[dogstar]

Is this the first mix from a new box/bag/bucket of salt mix ?? Could be a bad batch of mix.
Do you have your own RO filter or do you buy it somewhere??

 

[fish1031]

I buy and the test kit it probably 6 months old or so. It was not the first batch of water I made w/ the salt mix.

 

[saltn00b]

make a new small batch and test the new water for everything

 

[ccampbell57]

Fish - you should be ok. If you see any signs of ammonia in the DT, go and buy AmQuel+ from the LFS and put it in the tank. It will detoxify the ammonia and lower your nitrites as a result.

 

[tinmanny]

What did you mix the water in and is it possible that something was in it during the mixing
or maby a child dropped something just throwing things out here maby the container was contaminated
Good Luck
Manny