lollll this is getting fun now. Hanna nitrate HR reads 0. Even considering the error of +/-2ppm, it still feels off lollll. It looks like Ill have a lot of fun monitoring over the next week
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Certainly sounds like they ain’t kicked in yet. Going off timelines for bacteria start ups, that sounds unlikely, but this seneye is touted as key in tracking ammonia data. Obviously both statements I just made can’t be true. At least you’ve got time on your side, without livestock.I'm more confused than ever now. I'm pretty sure my water is toxic, for bacteria.....seneye reads a consistent 0.142-0.145 for free ammonia over the last 16 hours. Combined with 0 nitrate reading from Hanna every day and the known 3ppm ammonium chloride dosage, I think batecteria are all dead, but i cant figure out what in my tank is leaching the toxin......my best bet is one or more rocks are bleached and i didnt sock them properly?
Any thoughts?
lollll this is getting fun now. Hanna nitrate HR reads 0. Even considering the error of +/-2ppm, it still feels off lollll. It looks like Ill have a lot of fun monitoring over the next week
If your Seneye and Hanna shows the right concentrations - not even step one in the nitrification cycle has started. 0.142 in NH3 (the sort of ammonia seneye measure) correspond to around 3 ppm total ammonia (NH3+NH4) at pH 8 (if I remember right - the amount you have put in was 3 ppm). You should definitely not put in any living things into that aquarium. Just keep on and add nitrification bacteria every day till you see the NH3 going down. Do not do any WCI'm more confused than ever now. I'm pretty sure my water is toxic, for bacteria.....seneye reads a consistent 0.142-0.145 for free ammonia over the last 16 hours. Combined with 0 nitrate reading from Hanna every day and the known 3ppm ammonium chloride dosage, I think batecteria are all dead, but i cant figure out what in my tank is leaching the toxin......my best bet is one or more rocks are bleached and i didnt sock them properly?
Any thoughts?
i used salifert as well. ammonia reading stayed at 1.5 after both times i dosed ammonium chloride it never reach >2 and never drop, but its certainly high. nitrate jumped up from 0.5 to 2.5 24hrs after added the bac bottle, but i didn’t measure after adding it so that could come from the bottle itself or bacteria was alive but some toxin killed they, which is my major concernSo the Seneye is showing the same values as your other test kit? It's like the cycle never started.
My concern here is the water might be toxic to bacteria, the rate its growing at seemed value low comparing to “normal” water, but im not certainJust keep on and add nitrification bacteria every day till you see the NH3 going down. Do not do any WC
well if you read my post carefully enough, i have made it clear that i simply wont have the time to do all the work needed to add livestock until the end of the week. in the meantime, it will just be monitoring and figuring the numbers outI'm 100% sure your reef works like this reef here:
100% Water Change
So in my previous thread, I had an ammonia issue that was out of hand. As suggested, I did a 100% WC and now i’m wondering when I should start adding fish back. If anyone has suggestions, let me know!www.reef2reef.com
Rowen Ill leave you with this: what I'm relaying to you works for 24 pages in a thread far far away where the one thing missing is the static.
in that distant, hard to locate thread where we simply run job, after job, after job, you are getting top dollar help here from that far galaxy and it seems like you're having trouble knowing who to believe. That's a tricky choice agreed. every single stumbling block in this thread does not exist there, that's key in outcomes logged. another difference is that thread has one pilot and all we do is collect after pics.
For the first step NH4/NH3 -> NO2 - No - according to my experiences.My concern here is the water might be toxic to bacteria, the rate its growing at seemed value low comparing to “normal” water, but im not certain