Going mad

i am going mad my ammonia is high doing water changs not feeding fish put APIammo lock in QUA SAFE in nutrafin cycle in and still its going up can anyone help tank is 7 weeks old was testing ok on weeks 2 and 3 have about 9 fish in it and have lost some about 4 think i am ineed off big help

What sort of filtration do you have on the tank? I am guessing you,re tank might not of fully cycled and 9 fish in 7 weeks is only going to add to you ammonia problems.
What fish do you have at the moment and what is the size of the tank?

I take it my filter squeezings didn't help the problem? All you can do for now is keep up with the water changes. Have you lost any more since i was down?

AIP ammo lock will give you a false reading.It "locks the ammonia down" so you will still test positive for it. Crapy crappy product.It drove ne mad too.Dont use it.Do a waer change for a couple of days on the trot and you will read zeros.

its a advance aquis 1050 (aqua one) i have 2 mollys 2 catfish 1 ram 1 angel 2 clown loach 1 silver shank tank is 190 LT got the water tested when getting the fish in the shop was fine got 5 then 5 more the next week water was tested in shop was fine then next week did not put any in as water was not right so did water changs for a week and so on on week 6 now

doing water changes for the last 3 weeks and its still the same

If you do a 30% water change daily it should help.... Im not really fimiliar with this product 'advance aquis 1050 (aqua one)'... You said you have been doing water changes for the last 3 weeks.. How much? and How much water do you normally change every week?

The clown loaches and silver shark wont be able to live in a 190L long term... Bala sharks grow pretty fast, this wont help with your ammonia prob..

i am doing 25%to 40% change was doing 25% weekly

change 15-25% daily for the next few weeks or until readings for ammonia and nitrIte go down to or below .25ppm (test every day) and ONLY use tapsafe (dechlorinator) as the other products mess with the cycle that should form naturally in your filter

i have used this method for all my tanks and cycling was very fast and filters are very strong, no costly additives for me!

get your own test kit and test before every water change, the higher the reading the more you should change (up to around 30%) you will see ammonia readings go down and nitrIte go up, continue changing until nitrIte goes down (ammonia should be zero at this stage) and nitrAte will rise. when nitrIte is reading zero or close to, you should be ok with 25% weekly changes but keep testing every day or 2. make sure the tap water is clean (test for all the above) and also get it close as you can to the tank temperature to reduce shock given to already stressed fish

note the difference between nitrIte and nitrAte these are 2 different toxins, the latter not bein very dangerous unless in very high concentration, it just feeds plants and/or algae but it will continually rise in any tank that is cycled, which is why people do regular water changes

keep us updated and get a test kit it is the most valuable thing a fishkeeper should own (IMO) and post your test results (the first few will still read off until that ammo-lock and cycle stuff is out of the water through water changes