Was this worth the 7 bucks??

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Well I found the reading levels, turns blue-green at around .02 mg/L
Here is what they say on another site; The main reason is I have lost a few larger snails of late, just can't seem to grow enough "Green Stuff". Even add sheets and tabs too, and lights up to 13 hours a day!!

INTERPRETATION: As little as 0.02 mg/L of free ammonia will produce a greenish hue on the detector surface. This corresponds to a total ammonia (both ionized and free ammonia) of 0.25 mg/L in marine water at pH 8.3. In freshwater at pH 7.0, this corresponds to 3.6 mg/L total ammonia. Free ammonia is much more toxic than ionized ammonia. As free ammonia, the ALERT color corresponds to about 0.05 mg/L, ALARM to about 0.2 mg/L, and TOXIC to about 0.5 mg/L. The ALERT concentration is tolerated for several days, ALARM for a few days, and TOXIC is rapidly harmful. This product is not recommended for use at acid pH.

 

[rykna]

Originally Posted by chipmaker
Evidently you did not ever get a rise in ammonia then or it would have indicated it.
Did yu have live rock? sand" Odds are its hard to get an ammonia spike in a tank with sufficient live rock and sand and not overstocked or fed. Flame me if ya all want, but I just do not do ammonia tests anymore nor do I do any nitrate or nitrite tests. ONce my tanks are mature and stabile I rarely do any checks once I get to know them. I am not alone in this either. There is just no way a tank with sufficient levels of live rock and all fish present and accounted for and not over loaded is going to get any ammonia buildup, and without ammonia there is not going to be any nitrite either.

I agree with you 100%!!!! I had 135 lbs of live rock in my 90 gallon along with aproximatley 120~160 lbs or 3 inches worth of live sand. I do the same thing...once you become familiar with the tank. The rest is easy. :happyfish

 

[chipmaker]

Just for those that asked. I just came bqack from my favorite LFS a short time ago after cleaning up on a heap of all kinds of shrooms and zoos at prices that were really too cheap to waste the electricity to power up the cashregister on, but anyway, low and behold, he had PH, and Nitrate hang in the tank indicators hanging on thre shelf. I asked him how they do and his reply was "as advertised" I will say one thing about this LFS. The guy does not carry any gimmick type junk, so if its onthe shelf yu can bet it works. They are made by Mardels. Considerably larger than the Seachem but they do work.

 

[1knight164]

Thanks once again, Chipmaker, for the tips. This should make it easy for my kid to monitor the tank. Tried teaching her how to use the tests kits, but she gets confused with all the different test and procedures :joy: :joy: :joy:

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