Water Help
- Ianb262
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Water Help
My water is testing ZERO for everything.
Ammonia - 0ppm
Nitrite - 0ppm
Nitrate - 0ppm
Ammonia - 0ppm
Nitrite - 0ppm
Nitrate - 0ppm
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- Green Spotted Puffer
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Re: Water Help
Is your test kit expired? what kind of test kit is it, liquid or test strips? What is your nitrate out of the tap? Do you have live plants? Did you just perform a water change?
- Ianb262
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Re: Water Help
Test kit is brand new. It is an API Saltwater Master Kit, liquid. Nitrates used to be around 5~ ppm but have disappearedkass wrote:Is your test kit expired? what kind of test kit is it, liquid or test strips? What is your nitrate out of the tap? Do you have live plants? Did you just perform a water change?
I don't have live plants. I did a water change 1 week ago.
No Nitrates in tap
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- eieio
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Re: Water Help
are you properly shaking the heck out of the test tubes on the Nitrate test (per the instructions, specifically)?
..........if not, the reading will not be accurate
..........if not, the reading will not be accurate
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Re: Water Help
What's the SG, that you are using a SW test kit?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
- Ianb262
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Re: Water Help
Right now it's at 0 sg.
If you remember my last thread, Pufferpunk said to keep it FW for 2 weeks until conditions were stable.
And yes, I am shaking the vials enough.
If you remember my last thread, Pufferpunk said to keep it FW for 2 weeks until conditions were stable.
And yes, I am shaking the vials enough.
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- sangrail
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Re: Water Help
this seems to be the same issue I am having, however I think I can see the ammonia test getting darker a little. but I change out about 30% a week so little zep with 150l probably doesn't put out a lot of amonia
- Ianb262
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Re: Water Help
You probably don't need to do a 30% WC a week, that seems like overkill. It may also remove beneficial bacteria.sangrail wrote:this seems to be the same issue I am having, however I think I can see the ammonia test getting darker a little. but I change out about 30% a week so little zep with 150l probably doesn't put out a lot of amonia
Try a 15 - 20% WC
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- Pufferpunk
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Re: Water Help
You are 100% wrong! Most of us here do 50% or more weekly, I usually do 75%. The nitrifying bacteria lives on surfaces, NOT in the water column. Many discus breeders do 200% daily.Ianb262 wrote: You probably don't need to do a 30% WC a week, that seems like overkill. It may also remove beneficial bacteria.
Try a 15 - 20% WC
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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- Green Spotted Puffer
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Re: Water Help
If the test kit is for SW and the water you are testing is freshwater could that affect the results?Ianb262 wrote:Right now it's at 0 sg.
If you remember my last thread, Pufferpunk said to keep it FW for 2 weeks until conditions were stable.
And yes, I am shaking the vials enough.
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Re: Water Help
Yeah, using a SW test kit on FW is going to give you inaccurate readings. If you are using API I know that most kits come with both a FW and SW chart. Just use whichever is most closest to your type of water.
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Re: Water Help
Correct for fresh and salt the charts are different, and yes most of us are diligent about our 50% changes on our FW tanks. For salt its usually a monthly for me but depends on the tank .
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