Originally Posted by
}PhillyFish>
http:///forum/post/2939961
Thank you . I was doing the 82 temp and the Ick treatment for 5 days as the bottle said but I now have a crazy Ammonia prob. So I put the carbon with the ammonia back in the filter and started the AMMO lock . Hope I dont kill everything. I hate putting all this crap in the tank.
If that's the Marineland carbon with Ammonia remover, that's for FW use only. You'll need to take it out.
For stopping an ammonia spike, use Amquel Plus (note the Plus). It converts the ammonia to a less-harmful form.
As far as adding 'stuff' to the tank, I generally try to avoid it, with Amquel Plus being the notable exception. Otherwise you get yourself in a cycle of adding Product B to solve the problem Product A caused.
Start doing the water changes to get your tank down to 1.009. That will help remove the Ammonia as well.