Hi guys,
I just started my cycle using dr tims and I'm currently on day 6, I am keeping an eye on nitrite, ph and ammonia everyday. I recently purchased a salifert ammonia test kit to have a comparison to my redsea test kit. I followed closely to their instruction and seem to get a different reading on both of them which is quite frustrating, on the red sea ammonia test I'm getting a result of 2+, whereas on the salifert its only showing 0.5 ammonia which is very frustrating as I am unsure of which one is showing the true values.
Whats your thoughts on this?
Edit: think i found the cause , the salifert test kit is only showing nh3 , whereas the redsea is comvination of nh3 and nh4.
So during the cycle should i be monitoring nh3+nh4 or only the nh3?
I just started my cycle using dr tims and I'm currently on day 6, I am keeping an eye on nitrite, ph and ammonia everyday. I recently purchased a salifert ammonia test kit to have a comparison to my redsea test kit. I followed closely to their instruction and seem to get a different reading on both of them which is quite frustrating, on the red sea ammonia test I'm getting a result of 2+, whereas on the salifert its only showing 0.5 ammonia which is very frustrating as I am unsure of which one is showing the true values.
Whats your thoughts on this?
Edit: think i found the cause , the salifert test kit is only showing nh3 , whereas the redsea is comvination of nh3 and nh4.
So during the cycle should i be monitoring nh3+nh4 or only the nh3?
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