Todays total ammonia up slightly to 0.12 at pH 8.0. Only difference being test done midday after feeds begun instead of early AM as usual. Also 3" and plump Flame Hawk added 24 hours earlier. Not sure if either of these changes are significant.
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I have never tested for ammonia or nitrite.Would it be helpful to test for ammonia in my tank after adding fish to ensure I'm not stressing my bio-filter by adding too much at once? If so, how long after the addition would a potential spike occur?
I'm kinda in the same boat, set up a larger system and transferred all my animals to the new tank and ammonia is now my concern. My ammonia test kit isn't even showing me a color anywhere close to what the card shows. I ordered the RS ammonia test kit and waiting to receive it from BRS. I don't know if the fritz zyme 9 is interfering with the test kit or what but if been taking precautions for the meantime incase there is ammonia creap going on.Haven't addressed this issue in quite some time but wanted to update on Hanna ammonia. I was testing very infrequently but when testing recently I was getting errors and discovered Hanna had to reformulate their reagents. Previously there were two liquids and a powder, now two powders and one liquid. They provided me with the new reagents and my test today read 0.0 ammonia. Not sure if that's an indication of a more mature tank or that prior tests results are unreliable. Certainly I have a more significant bioload than earlier so I have no idea.