Review on 🐠 Fluval Ammonia Remover: Highly Efficient Chemical Filter Media for Freshwater Aquariums – 180-gram Nylon Bags by Alicia Hercules

While this product is easy to use and comes in a separate media pouch, it just doesn't work for me. I measure my pH, ammonia, nitrites and nitrates at least twice a day if I see too many toxins on a previous test. or every time I change the water before and a few hours after. I test both total ammonia (API set) and free ammonia (Seachem symbol). I had a tank where the loop accidentally crashed and thus reset from scratch. I had no other place to put the fish so I put them in a makeshift bucket until I cleaned and reinstalled the tank. The fish was moved to a new aquarium from a bucket of toxic water. There isn't much choice as I didn't have a pre-configured tank to work with. Although I kept the media from a previous installation, it did not fill up the new filter media fast enough. As expected in a new cycle with small fish, the ammonia level increased rapidly over 2 days. But there are no nitrites and nitrates yet. So I tried adding bacteria via the Start API but didn't get any results after a few days. Still high levels of free and total ammonia but no nitrites and nitrates. I tried the NitraZorb API to remove ammonia and as far as I could tell it didn't help lower the ammonia and there was still no nitrite or nitrate. I removed it after 5 days and replaced it with this Fluval ammonia remover. My free and total ammonia readings have always stayed very high (4-8 ppm). It has now been in my aquarium for 5 days without affecting the ammonia levels. My fish have been suffering from high ammonia levels for a few weeks now. So solid food that didn't seem to do anything. Water changes of 50% a day didn't help either. As a last resort, I tripled the dose of Prime and Amguard. While I've typically used Prime for dechlorination, he said it also blocks toxic ammonia and nitrite until the bacteria can build up in the filter to absorb the toxic chemicals in the filter. And Amguard only works better for ammonia reduction. I've read that high doses like 5X Prime can be administered to temporarily block toxic substances. Immediately after high dosing of Prime I noticed a significant improvement in ammonia levels and now my filter media has started converting ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrate. So while the level in this tank was stabilizing, I removed two bags of Fluval Ammonia Remover and there was no change in the ammonia level. If they did anything, I would expect high ammonia levels to get off the charts again. But they didn't. So this Fluval product like NitraZorb didn't do anything at all, good or bad. So now I don't use that thing anymore. It just didn't affect the free or total ammonia levels in my aquarium. It was AmGuard and Prime that eventually reduced the non-toxic ammonia enough to start the cycle on its own, not this product. So of course I do not recommend this Fluval ammonia remover. He just didn't do what they promised. It didn't matter at all.