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Originally Posted by Oil_Fan  That's easy. Just removing the chlorine isn't enough. There could be other things in the water causing you issues. That's why I asked earlier if you used an R/O unit. They remove pretty much everything. It's very likely that you have some copper in the water.
Think about it...you do a water change. You increase the copper in the water but it will take a few days for the change to really take effect. You then have a snail die because of it. That in turn as it decays, causes an ammonia spike.
First thing is check with your water company. See if they publish a report on the water they deliver into the home. I know where I live they do. You check on the report for a number of things that could be an issue. Odds are you can check into that online.
Next would be to run a specific test for copper. If it comes back as being positive, check your water before adding it to the tank to verify the source.
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if the water feed pipes are copper then you will have a trace of copper in water this will kill the inverts causing the ammonia spikes , if the tank wasnt fully cycled this will cause spiking too , as for the green algea this will live of the phosphates not removed from tap water and this also causes overgrowing in inverts as well
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