As per title. How do you in particular measure/test/track ammonia? Choose all the options that you currently are doing. If you have another method/choice not listed, or if you do multiple different tests, feel free to go into detail.
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By a picture of the tank and inhabitants
strictly indirect measure. Looking for fish that are harmed vs normal, gray water due to systems overcame, corals closed up tight, some clean up crew dead or dying, and some constant source for the claimed issue. Inability to control ammonia in a reef tank has stark consequences we can see in pics. This won’t help much in other settings, but in a reef display tank its shockingly accurate when benchmarked against digital meters on the samples visually identified.
Whoops, somehow I missed that. XD Added it as an option, feel free to change your vote.Fluval. I can't think of the last time I checked ammonia, though.
Wait, this modified API method requires additional components and takes an hour? o.omodified API as laid out in this thread.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/here-is-a-way-to-measure-ammonia-accurately.799139/
um, yeah.Wait, this modified API method requires additional components and takes an hour? o.o
I see. I guess good to know if one ever really, really need to check low range ammonia.um, yeah.
needs a sodium citrate powder like in the red sea kit that prevents precipitation, the full color development takes an hour. read with a digital eyeball, accurate to well better than 0.05.
That's fair, if one does not care how much ammonia the nitrifiers can actually handle, just that there are nitrifiers. For those who wants to be certain nitrifiers can handle a certain amount of ammonia daily though (2ppm, usually) then it would be necessarily to measure ammonia.There is no need to measure ammonia unless you dose it.
I would go as fare not even required during cycle. To me no2 / no3 was an indication that the cycle is ready. I didn’t deliberately put ammonia to the tank yet started to see no3 meaning the bacteria was there.
Why would you care. New tank so it is little. Just go slow.That's fair, if one does not care how much ammonia the nitrifiers can actually handle, just that there are nitrifiers. For those who wants to be certain nitrifiers can handle a certain amount of ammonia daily though (2ppm, usually) then it would be necessarily to measure ammonia.