It’s intresting following along reading this thread, to start with I was very much a sceptical of api‘s amonia test but now am to the point of believing that it is accurate but probably not the best choice But best choice is a whole other topic
on the point of prime being a known cause of issues, it would be interesting to better understand why
I have always been of the understanding that this is because the api test kit raises the ph converting the amonia bound by prime back to nh3 . SEachem even put this warning on there website for prime and on there ammolock product bottle, maybe it would be good of seachem to add the same warning to there prime bottle although that would likely cause the to lose some ammolock sales.
to test this I ran the api test on my mixed salt water (left) and salt water with the 5x emergency dose of prime. and can see without the presence of amonia prime has no impact on the test result
would be interesting if someone had some prime and amonia to hand if the could dose up to say 1ppm amonia bind it with prime and see if prime alters the levels reported or if prime purely causes a misread due to lack of awareness about the warning above.
on the point of prime being a known cause of issues, it would be interesting to better understand why
I have always been of the understanding that this is because the api test kit raises the ph converting the amonia bound by prime back to nh3 . SEachem even put this warning on there website for prime and on there ammolock product bottle, maybe it would be good of seachem to add the same warning to there prime bottle although that would likely cause the to lose some ammolock sales.
to test this I ran the api test on my mixed salt water (left) and salt water with the 5x emergency dose of prime. and can see without the presence of amonia prime has no impact on the test result
would be interesting if someone had some prime and amonia to hand if the could dose up to say 1ppm amonia bind it with prime and see if prime alters the levels reported or if prime purely causes a misread due to lack of awareness about the warning above.