You may recall my post week or two ago, about my nitrates being skyhigh, for higher than I believe my tapwater was, and a tank that had been cycled yet.
Nitrates today tested at 5ppm, which makes no sense at all, because when we bought our house, the well water test revealed nitrates at 13 ppm, which necessitated an RO system.
Last week nitrates in the tank tested at 40-80...way too high for a non cycled tank (based on what my well water is naturally), so that also makes zero sense. I haven't done a WC since then. I'm beginning to think I screwed up the nitrate test bottle somehow, by perhaps not shaking vigorously enough/long enough per the API instructions the first couple times.
Could I have perhaps not shaken enough, causing the chemicals in Nitrate test bottle #2 to come out too concentrated on the first tests, causing a false high reading, and then being too diluted for accurate future tests?
Nitrates today tested at 5ppm, which makes no sense at all, because when we bought our house, the well water test revealed nitrates at 13 ppm, which necessitated an RO system.
Last week nitrates in the tank tested at 40-80...way too high for a non cycled tank (based on what my well water is naturally), so that also makes zero sense. I haven't done a WC since then. I'm beginning to think I screwed up the nitrate test bottle somehow, by perhaps not shaking vigorously enough/long enough per the API instructions the first couple times.
Could I have perhaps not shaken enough, causing the chemicals in Nitrate test bottle #2 to come out too concentrated on the first tests, causing a false high reading, and then being too diluted for accurate future tests?