Sudden Ammonia Spike - no obvious cause…
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Tank has plenty of surface area, clean water, healthy fish that are feeding well
if determined to trace ammonia sourcing get a seneye, nothing is believable any other way since we don’t know why Red Sea misfires in so many tanks
in my opinion, based on the adding ammonia thread on prior pages, a truly massive daily input would be required to overcome your tanks ability to process ammonia. A source you could easily smell before adding to tank
if determined to trace ammonia sourcing get a seneye, nothing is believable any other way since we don’t know why Red Sea misfires in so many tanks
in my opinion, based on the adding ammonia thread on prior pages, a truly massive daily input would be required to overcome your tanks ability to process ammonia. A source you could easily smell before adding to tank
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Blanking a test kit on non reef water does not apply. that’s missing the metabolites and living materials that cause the false alarm in living systems.
stocked reef tanks dont run zero ammonia, we expect to see some degree of ammonia in every reef tank and ammonia alert threads become subjective at that point
living reef systems have X components that cause Red Sea and api to lag, misread etc but on a seneye those living waters show thousandths ppm nh3 average running or hundredths ppm max as they estimate your nh3 for you live time
off those Red Sea readings we have to take that nh4 level and guesstimate what color it would be if we reduced it eleven times less to get reef-specific nh3, non digital kits are a guessing game, we do not expect a stocked reef tank to run zero ammonia is key in my opinion
Only getting a seneye will be clear, tested on the living water, anything shy of getting a seneye and trying to use Red Sea is this:
www.reef2reef.com
stocked reef tanks dont run zero ammonia, we expect to see some degree of ammonia in every reef tank and ammonia alert threads become subjective at that point
living reef systems have X components that cause Red Sea and api to lag, misread etc but on a seneye those living waters show thousandths ppm nh3 average running or hundredths ppm max as they estimate your nh3 for you live time
off those Red Sea readings we have to take that nh4 level and guesstimate what color it would be if we reduced it eleven times less to get reef-specific nh3, non digital kits are a guessing game, we do not expect a stocked reef tank to run zero ammonia is key in my opinion
Only getting a seneye will be clear, tested on the living water, anything shy of getting a seneye and trying to use Red Sea is this:
Sustained Ammonia spikes are misreads
The reason you think your reef tank can’t control its ammonia is due to false training from old cycling science. That and you don’t own a seneye on the tank in question: if you did, you wouldn’t ever think your ammonia was out of control...
www.reef2reef.com
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