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I do apologize if this was already stated/asked/answered:
What is the risk in dosing too much solution at once? let's say a particular individual with two small children who are very active, always running and playing, also very distracting, uses TABLESPOON instead of TEASPOON and possibly adds 3 to a 550ml mixture....
I'm curious on what I did besides the obvious which killed nearly all my fish. Did I spike Ammonia and now I'm back in a "cycle" state; did I crater pH (can't tell since my pH probe went belly up on me two weeks ago, ordered the calibration fluid to make sure that was all it is)? I'm curious what the ultimate risk is with dosing Ammonium Bicarbonate.
If you highly overdosed ammonia, you could kill fish but would not start new cycling.
You need to greatly exceed the amount I recommended. Much more than 10x. Tablespoon vs teaspoon is not going to kill fish.