Should a go ahead with new tank set up?

[SkarloeysMom]

I've got this weird .25ppm ammonia thing going on in my 10g right now. Not sure if its a mini cycle from changing the gravel about 9 days ago or something to do with my water change on Sunday. Anyway, since I have an ammonia reading in the 10g and will have to do a water change today anyway should I go ahead and move the 10g while I'm doing the water change so I can get started on the 20g set up?

Here's my idea:
I would ditch 25% of the water then drain some into a small bucket for the fish and the rest into my water change bucket. Then move the tank to its new location, fill the tank with new water, then old tank water and then put the fish back in the tank without having to net them again just gently float and tilt the rest of the water in so they can swim out on their own. Does that sound like a workable plan? Is that too much stress on the fish.

[SkarloeysMom]

Well I was a fish tank moving machine today. I got it all done. The fish seems fine. The ammonia is the same even with a 25% water change or maybe a little lower. I also got a chance to get my 2 pandas with the little fin rot out and into quarrentine to treat them again.

[Drumachine09]

Well I was a fish tank moving machine today. I got it all done. The fish seems fine. The ammonia is the same even with a 25% water change or maybe a little lower. I also got a chance to get my 2 pandas with the little fin rot out and into quarrentine to treat them again.


Hit it with another water change and see if that will affect the levels at all. If not, maybe your ammonia neutralizing aditives arent working.

[SkarloeysMom]

Hit it with another water change and see if that will affect the levels at all. If not, maybe your ammonia neutralizing aditives arent working.

I thought that too or perhaps I had not put enough neutral regulator in there So I did a test. Put our straight tap water with the .50 ammonia in a jar and added a tiny bit using a 1/4 teaspoon probably a 1/16 or so and mixed it well. Then I ran a ammonia test that came out as yellow as yellow can be. Then I tested my 10g tank to see what the pH was and its 7.0. So it seems to me that the buffer I'm using is working.

I'm gonna check the ammonia again in the morning and if there's still a reading higher than 0, I'll do another 25% change.