Ammonia Anomalies

[ubiq]

I keep getting large ammonia spikes that are unrelated to feeding or anything that I'm doing. Per Seneye, these spikes typically last under 5 minutes before returning to the normal 0.005 mg/l (ppm), but can be alarmingly high (see attached 72 hour graph). Any thoughts welcome.

 

[Logical_Plan]

Possible that you got air under slide when changing it?

Is this unique to this slide?

Assuming other previous slides had no anomalies, did you accidentally touch the slide installing it. That will contaminate it.

Just asking for the common operator error type questions, since reading seem erratic

 

[brandon429]

Logical that is really neat troubleshooting ideas you’re mentioning nice learning here for hardware tuning

 

[Logical_Plan]

Logical that is really neat troubleshooting ideas you’re mentioning nice learning here for hardware tuning

I just happened to read the instruction manual on mine and the website faqs. Amazing what you learn when reading documentation.

 

[ubiq]

No touching, no air bubbles. This has also happened with 4 previous slides. Good thinking, though. I should mention that I routinely find that small worms have invaded the SUD, perhaps attracted by the light.

 

[Logical_Plan]

No touching, no air bubbles. This has also happened with 4 previous slides. Good thinking, though. I should mention that I routinely find that small worms have invaded the SUD, perhaps attracted by the light.

I think you have your answer then. If the worms are interacting with the light and slide, I would suspect that affects the readings.

It looks like on your 30 minute intervals you rarely get two spikes in a row, but it did happen a couple times.

If you have it connected to a computer, you can look at the table values to see how many times you have a spike on two consecutive intervals. It does not appear frequently from the graph.

You can always click on the reading tab to force a reading. It allows 20 manual readings per hour.

I would for sure clean the unit of the worm invasion. I think contacting seneye for that procedure may be the best plan.

Seneye also sells a cleaning solution:

Get your seneye device and aquarium equipment looking like new - seneye

Seneye cleaner is ideal for removing stubborn coraline algae or hard scale to restore aquarium equipement. Its non toxic formula makes it great for aquariums.

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But you can try this procedure first:

Cleaning and caring for your seneye device - Seneye

dirt and cleaning your seneye aquarium monitor for light, NH3 and pH sensor, caring for your it will increase the life

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