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LFS said he stopped worrying about his (25 years in the business.) He said due to amount of farmland on our water table he would see nitrAtes spike between 5-40 depending on the day. He also said he was yet to find two tests that agreed with each other. I'm going to stick with frequent PWC's...

Doing the test the correct way (shaking after bottle 1) and shaking longer after #2 is yielding a very orangy red... so I would assume results to be about 30ppm. I can't find any recent reports for my local online (Newport, Delaware, USA) but I found one from a few years ago that was showing...

By toxic to humans I meant to drink..... NitrAtes higher than 10ppm will cause "blue baby syndrome" After some more research- There has to be something wrong with either the way I'm doing it or the kit itself.... no way is it coming from the tap that way. Thanks for trying to help everyone...

I don't see how I could be doing it wrong.... I get 5ml of water (fill to line) I shake both bottle 1 and 2.... I add 10 drops of 1 and then 10 drops of 2...then I shake the beaker (with the cap on) and wait 5 minutes

So I just tested bottled water-0 ppm, tap water hot- 30-40 ppm, tap water cold- 30/40ppm tank water- 30/40ppm ppm. what the heck?! it was my understanding that over 10ppm is toxic to humans.... And here is the other puzzling part- a month ago when I started the fishless cycle I was testing...

Tank is cycled- just finished.. I did a 98% change tonight because I have no fish yet- I'm stocking tomorrow now that fishless-cycle is completed. NitrAtes were that high because I allowed them to get that high while cycling. I'm checking tap water now and getting equal reading in...

Anyone have any ideas? I just completed fishless- cycling and am prepping my tank for stocking. TrAtes were up over 100 and I thought a full water change (or darn close to it) would clear all nitrAtes out?

I know, I know... the fishless cycle guide says 4ppm to 0 in 24 hours... but I have seen other fishless cycle guides that say 2ppm to 0. I am about 4.5 weeks into the fish-less cycle and right now my tank turns about 2.5 ppm ammo into nitrAte in 24 hours. Its a starter Cichilid tank 29 gal...

Ok- so I smacked the ever-loving crap out of my NitrAte test bottles and VOILA! Ammo- .5, NitrIte-0, NitrAte- I would guess 60-80. Thanks for the help!!

I will try again tonight when I get home but I have been thoroughly shaking every API bottle before each test

Looks great, Congrats!!! Beautiful fish!!!

Hi all! First of all- thank you! I've been lurking around here for weeks and all the posts have been VERY helpful. I am doing a fishless cycle on a 29 gal tall tank. I am 4 weeks in and getting VERY puzzling readings. I am using the API test kit and dosing with blue ribbon clear ammonia from...

Thank you very much :) :thumb:

So I'm in the process of doing a fishless cycle of my 29 gallon tall tank. I'm at the point right now where I'm seeing my ammo down to about 3 ppm, NitrItes rising above 1 and NitrAtes showed up a few days ago and are now at around 10. My question is this: I have a marineland 150 HoB filter...