blackandwhite
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hi all
I have just put together my first tank and I started adding ammonia today. But I am very confused as to how much ammonia I need to actually put in. A couple hours after putting in 1.8 ml of ammonia in my 90 gallon tank, I tested the water with the AP test kit and had a reading of .25 ppm. So I went ahead and added 7 more ml of ammonia. Tested again in a couple hours and my levels read as .5 ppm.
This seemed suspicious to me, so I tested the test kit and put 1 ml of ammonia in a test tube with 4 ml of water and when I added the drops from both number one and number two test bottles, and let it sit for ten minutes the color was barely dark enough to qualify as a 1 ppm. Logically it would seem to me that a 1/5 ratio of ammonia should result in a super dark green reading of 8 ppm of ammonia, but that did not happen.
Am I doing something terribly wrong or is my test kit faulty? I'd appreciate any advice.
I have just put together my first tank and I started adding ammonia today. But I am very confused as to how much ammonia I need to actually put in. A couple hours after putting in 1.8 ml of ammonia in my 90 gallon tank, I tested the water with the AP test kit and had a reading of .25 ppm. So I went ahead and added 7 more ml of ammonia. Tested again in a couple hours and my levels read as .5 ppm.
This seemed suspicious to me, so I tested the test kit and put 1 ml of ammonia in a test tube with 4 ml of water and when I added the drops from both number one and number two test bottles, and let it sit for ten minutes the color was barely dark enough to qualify as a 1 ppm. Logically it would seem to me that a 1/5 ratio of ammonia should result in a super dark green reading of 8 ppm of ammonia, but that did not happen.
Am I doing something terribly wrong or is my test kit faulty? I'd appreciate any advice.