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New round of tests today: ammonia - .2 (seachem) .5 (api) nitrite - 0 (seachem) 0 (api) nitrate - 20 (seachem) 80 (api) 50-100 (salifert) phosphate - 0 (seachem) ph - 8.0 (seachem) Alkalinity - 9.3dkh (salifert) calcium - 470 (salifert) magnesium - 1350 (salifert) Have stopped vodka dosing...

Doin a deep clean like that wouldnt restart a cycle? And most of my rocks are pretty huge and wouldnt be possible to take out of the tank

So if the vodka is interfering with testing how long u think till its out of the system and i get true test results?

Yeah good point

Yeah the issues were there before new sump and skimmer and was the reason i added the skimmer. Im just confused because if the readings really are 20ish then theres not a whole lot of a problem lol I just dont know what readings are correct

Thanks for the help i just dont know what to think. Im still getting readings over 100 with salifert test and 80 with api but only maybe 20 with seachem

I have still been codka dosing i didnt know thatcould throw off readings. Ive been doing that for a little over a month now and am at 3.6 ml a day. Fish are - yellow tang, kole tang, 2 clowns, yellow watchman and purple dottyback Last water change was about a week and a half ago and ive only...

No and ive got several inverts.. 2 serpent stars, a cleaner shrimp and a pistol shrimp although i never see the pistol i still hear him at night. The only thing that shows any kind of stress is my colt coral but its never really thrived since i got it

Retested again today. Its possible i could have been using too much water/reference solution? Ammonia reference turned out ok today and the nitrate reference still looked a little off but was closer. So that being said my tests are: Ammonia- .15 :( Nitrite- .5 Nitrate- 20 (I diluted tank water...

Just ordered new seachem test kits. Will update once they arrive

Seachem comes with a regent to double check the results. Have you tried the LFS? It's expensive to have to purchase test kits one after the other. What size tank do you have, last water change, type of water, RO or tap? Tell us about your system and all equipment. Tank is 125gallon with 40gallon...

The exp. is may 2015 and i opened the kit in march. I dunno i guess ill try a new kit whats a good brand to go with?

The salifert is a pretty new test kit ive only had it a couple months. I got it when i started having high readings with the api

Ive tested with both salifert and api tho and get really high readings, the highest on the color chart on both. But i also have a cleaner shrimp in the tank who is doing fine. Should i get a different test kit?

Its been this way for months tho and im afraid to add anymore corals or anything to the tank with them being this high :(

I have probably 100-150 lbs of live rock. I have not been blowing them off every water change, ill start doing that. Also i have tested right before and after a water change and the nitrate levels dont seem to move at all. I was mainly using a salifert test kit which ive heard isnt good for...

Ive used a couple test kits.. Salifert and api and get high readings on both. For a long time before adding the skimmer i was using an api test kit and getting 0 nitrates so i wasnt doing alot of water changes thinking that everything was ok and found out that that was a bad reading after...

So tank is still fairly new - 125 gallon with 55 gallon sump/refuge. Currently houses a kole tang, yellow watchman goby and 2 clownfish. My question is would i be ok adding a yellow tang as my next fish? I know they can get aggressive toward fish added after them but is their aggression more...

Thanks ill look into those

hmm whats the reason for it not to work?