Ammonia readings
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Hard to tell with the light. Looks to me like you might have just a trace. If you put the bottle against a white surface under brighter lighting we could probably tell for sure. Small amounts of ammonia can be hard to detect on tests. If in doubt, play it safe and treat it like a positive reading.
It is not enough to worry about, assuming things in the tank are ship-shape. Have you tested your tap water for ammonia, and with what result? If you have live plants, they will gobble this up depending how many and which ones, floaters the best for this, real "ammonia sinks."
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I always find it hard to tell if there is a reading or not
I always find it hard to tell if there is a reading or not
My tap has 1ppm ammonia in it. Nothing I can really do other then have plants that use it, or change to RO water and add my own minerals in.
Well, I suppose one could use something like API Ammo Lock, forgot about that until just now. Not sure if anyone has any info on wheather or not that is a good idea to use but thought I'd throw that out there. What are folks thoughts on Ammo Lock?
Well, I suppose one could use something like API Ammo Lock, forgot about that until just now. Not sure if anyone has any info on wheather or not that is a good idea to use but thought I'd throw that out there. What are folks thoughts on Ammo Lock?
First thing to note is, that a balanced healthy aquarium does not have ammonia or nitrite issues, so any chemical filtration to deal with such is (or should be) totally unnecessary. Second, if you have live plants, they will take up as much ammonia as the fish and decomposition could ever produce, and some of these chemical filtration products detrimentally affect plants.
I believe this topic is being covered in another thread-- isn't it? Twotankamin has posted therein...?
Oh yeah, I think you are right. The Water Changes thread? I just askings same question in there about Ammo Lock and thought this was the thread you were replying to.
OK. My response in this current thread is general, that chemical filtration is not advisable with plants. The other thread has specific issues.
Yeah, I'm still left with 0.25ppm ammonia after the Ammo Lock. So I think I'm still good with using it.
I don't think this is wise. First, ammonia in the source water is best dealt with by using a conditioner that detoxifies ammonia. This will be immediate. As the bacteria and (even more) the plants get active in taking the ammonia up, it is gone within 24 hours.
Not sure I understand what you just said. Isn't the Ammo Lock a conditioner that dextoxifies ammonia? Your statement makes it sounds like that is what I should do but at first you say it isn't wise.
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