Red Sea Ammonia tests

[Ka0s]

I'm not really worried all that much but I thought I would post to see if anyone else is seeing this.

I test my water religiously every 3rd day for all trace elements. I've noticed that my ammonia is either showing 0.1 or 0.15 since ive started. I'm seeing NO2 at 0 and NO3 at 2 -4 ppm. I stagger my testing to ensure at least 48 hrs has passed from last feeding.

The color of the test is between 0 and 0.2 and maybe I'm just trying to color macth to much or I'm seeing these traces.

This is a 29gallon BC and I'm dosing about 1ml of nopox. Recently I started to dose 1.25ml of nopox as I'm feeding a little more. I currently feed Reed roids 1/4 tsp twice a week and have a sun coral I feed 1 brine per head 8 heads. I do sprinkle maybe a 1/16th of a tsp hour before feeding with skimmer on to get the feeding tenticals out before I spot feed.

All live stock is doing well but I do notice some discoloration on the sand about 7 hours into the light being on.

Thoughts?

 

[Lasse]

Many of the normal amonia tests test for the complex NH3/NH4, among them Red Sea´s. IMO these tests (NH3/NH4) often show to high values. Often around 0.1 - 0.25 ppm even if the real figure is zero. I never test NH3/NH4 at all because of that. NO2 is zero - this indicate that your nitrification works as it should!

Sincerely Lasse