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meh, 5 year of keeping. No fish death due to water quality (3 from jumping out). Don't think its needed unless you have a planted or salt.
I run a pretty overstocked tank. I should have had it a while ago.
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Too many people do not have even a basic understanding of the nitrogen cycle. They are the ones always asking "how much water should I change out and how often?" Maintaining good water parameters should never be a guessing game. Your test kit will enable you to KNOW what the parameters are.
Make sure you follow the directions, especially when checking nitrates. The bottles and vials need to be shaken vigorously for the full recommended time or you could have an erroneous reading. The nitrate test is especially technique sensitive.
Make sure you follow the directions, especially when checking nitrates. The bottles and vials need to be shaken vigorously for the full recommended time or you could have an erroneous reading. The nitrate test is especially technique sensitive.
Right now I only have a nitrate kit. All my tanks are old and established.
I ran for about a year or two without a test kit. I found a Wc Schedule that worked for me and I stuck with it, my nitrates still stay consistently low so it must have worked for that whole time. Maybe? Lol
Great purchase
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I ran for about a year or two without a test kit. I found a Wc Schedule that worked for me and I stuck with it, my nitrates still stay consistently low so it must have worked for that whole time. Maybe? Lol
Great purchase
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I have heard this several times, and it just can't be true. In a liquid, things move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration. If you put a drop of dye in a glass of water, a minute later, the dye will be evenly distributed throughout the glass of water. And that's without circulation in the glass.
You will not have higher concentration of nitrates, or ammonia, at one level in the tank than at another level in the tank. Take your water sample from wherever it's convenient, it will read the same as at the bottom of the tank, or the middle of the tank, or the top 2 inches of the tank -- doesn't matter.
It's diffusion. I learned that in college chemistry. Even did math problems calculating how long it would take for a solution to diffuse through a membrane -- and then there was "osmotic pressure", diffusion can cause pressure.