Ammo-Lock question

[Fitz4fish]

150 Gal Fowlr
I just did a tank cleaning. Normal stuff. Normal readings. Nitrates are a little higher than what I would like but that's a never ending story. I removed some goopy matter from my refugium, I am not sure if that was good growth or bad, it didnt smell bad. But I dont think that was a big deal. Did a 20% water change. Everything was fine.
My wife must have distracted me with buying more shoes or something because I accidentally put AmmoLock in my tank instead of some nutrients.(Stupid, I know) I didn't think much of it but now my water is a little milky, my ammonia is testing high with nitrites looking a little bluer than it should.
I moved some rock so maybe I agitated some decayed matter, but this is an established tank. I wasn't expecting any ammonia spike.
Could this be the AmmoLock binding? Should I be worried or just do a few more water changes? PH is reading lower too.

Thanks

 

[KathyC]

Ammo Lock won't hurt the tank. It would be unusual to suddenly get an ammonia reading due to the product so it is possible you stirred something up.

Best to do a couple of water changes and if you run carbon you might want to replace that as well to pull out any extra impurities that you released.

 

[Fitz4fish]

Thanks Kathy, that's what I am hoping. But for ammonia to go from a 0 to a 2 seems pretty high? I just did w water change, keep fingers crossed for the am!

 

[KathyC]

How much of the product did you add? (still should not have raised it to 2!..2 on a scale of??).
What kind of test kit?

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

yea ammo lock would help the situation if anything..you definitely stirred something up. Give it a day to settle then see what it tests.