high ammonia

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Originally Posted by adidas

when i tore down my main tank, i moved over some of its water and some rock to my 10 gallon. i had 1 fish in there and for some reason my ammonia spiked.

Hope along with the rock and water you moved over, I hope you also moved over established filter media. I’m meaning sponges that came from your main tank that are covered in bacteria (longer then 3mths at least). Also having water flow is also a factor as well. If not it would be like your cycling a new tank. The un-established water would create a spike becoming unbalanced water chemistry and as soon as that happened your rock would have a little die off (inverts, algae doesn’t tolerate ammonia) and WHAM a HUGE ammonia spike!

Remember the smaller the tank the less room for error.