Wonky Master Test Kit
- Thread starter DirtyPaws949
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yes, I think duanes was correct about contamination from when I cleaned the tubes out.
I will recheck test kit #1 again after rinsing with distilled and thoroughly drying.
So chloramine-treated-water treated with stress coat (treats chlorine, chloramine, heavy metals... and I commonly dose a little higher since metal plant weights make me paranoid and who doesn’t like a nice slime coat boost) may still show up in aquarium results?
and trace amounts of ammonia readings are normal for tanks that are established?
180gal is ~1 year old, 65gal 8 months, 75gal 6-7 years, 60gal 8 months, 20gal 3-4 years, 150gal 2-3 years, 5.5 gal shrimp tank 7-9 months, 10gal ghost shrimp/ fry tank 7-9 months. Probably missing a couple, the rest are newer and less than 6 months old.
In my tank stocked with bigger fish, I tend to have 0.25ppm ammonium (Seachem ammonia alert shows less than 0.020ppm toxic ammonia). I also used this website to calculatr toxic ammonia http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~jea/w3-research/free-ammonia/nh3.html (line 1 is the API total ammonia reading). If the calculated value is less than 0.02ppm then your fish are fine. In really light stocked tanks, I have 0ppm total ammonia from the API test.
