Ammonia issues

[jjh302]

So I have had my tank for 3 months now and I'm still finding trace amounts of ammonia in it. Can't figure out why.

Ammonia-0.25ppm
Nitrate-10ppm
SG-1.027

I am anal about my weekly water changes. I just don't get it. I'm working on a 20 gallon build that I was getting ready to put together today finally but this has me a little apprehensive about starting a nano if I can't get my big tank right.

[BigRedsReefs10]

Are you using an api kit?

[treemanone2003]

Fwiw, the smaller the system, the harder and more frustrating it can be. Wether it's SW or FW when it all crashes, it's usually pretty rapid, fairly devastating, and if not caught soon enough, difficult (not impossible) to recover from.

[BigRedsReefs10]

Ok so after reading your other thread, I suggest you either try a different ammonia test or take it to a lfs that doesn't use api to test and verify. I have seen so many false positives given by api kits. If it looks like it's just a little lighter than .25 on the api card, then it's really 0 IME

[jjh302]

Originally Posted by BigRedsReefs10

Are you using an api kit?

For ammonia and nitrates yes

[jeremy upshir]

what type of filtration are you running? I agree with the api test kits they are not accurate