LudicrouSpeed
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I have a Seachem Ammonia Alert sensor in my tank that reads around .02 ppm. It has a range of .02 ppm to .5 ppm and describes this range as Safe to Toxic.
I just did my first API Master Kit test and found that my Ammonia is actually 2 ppm. It occured to me that these could be saying the same thing and the discrepancy is vernacular, like what we call a calorie is really a kilocalorie. I doubt that though.
If my Ammonia is really 2 ppm then my sensor is pretty worthless and I obviously need to get the Ammonia level down. In other news my Nitrites are 0, which is good, but my Nirates are over 100, which might be bad I gather?
My pH is 6 or less, and for the livebearers I have in the tank it should be more like 7.5. The Seachem pH sensor matches my liquid test result. I know that sensors are really just meant to give you a way to see quick changes, but is the takeway here that sensors are actually pretty worthless / misleading?
I'm doing a water change now, but is there anything else I should infer from my test results?
pH: 6 or less
Ammonia: 2ppm
Nitrites: 0 ppm
Nitrates: over 100pm
Thanks.
I just did my first API Master Kit test and found that my Ammonia is actually 2 ppm. It occured to me that these could be saying the same thing and the discrepancy is vernacular, like what we call a calorie is really a kilocalorie. I doubt that though.
If my Ammonia is really 2 ppm then my sensor is pretty worthless and I obviously need to get the Ammonia level down. In other news my Nitrites are 0, which is good, but my Nirates are over 100, which might be bad I gather?
My pH is 6 or less, and for the livebearers I have in the tank it should be more like 7.5. The Seachem pH sensor matches my liquid test result. I know that sensors are really just meant to give you a way to see quick changes, but is the takeway here that sensors are actually pretty worthless / misleading?
I'm doing a water change now, but is there anything else I should infer from my test results?
pH: 6 or less
Ammonia: 2ppm
Nitrites: 0 ppm
Nitrates: over 100pm
Thanks.