Most reliable ammonia test kit?

[Dinodanger]

API and Red Sea have both give false positives is there a trust worthy saltwater ammonia test kit?

 

[windemerejack]

Are you cycling your tank? If so salifert will do.
If not then don't bother testing ammonia.

 

[AbjectMaelstroM]

API and Red Sea have both give false positives is there a trust worthy saltwater ammonia test kit?

How did you determine that these kits are reporting false positives?

 

[AndyinAtlanta]

API was fine for me. I'll be honest, the only time I test for ammonia is when things look off (say the fish are acting different or all the corals closed up).

 

[Lasse]

There is test just testing the toxic form - NH3 - Sea Chem have different types of that. According to what I have read (not tested by myself) they are more reliable than the tests that test total ammonia (NH3+NH4) And yes - you can´t trust them because the most common result with them is 0.2 ppm IME. Even if the real value is 0

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Dan_P]

API and Red Sea have both give false positives is there a trust worthy saltwater ammonia test kit?

Are you setting up a new aquarium?