Ammonia help
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Based on that description, I'd guess your ammonia is 0 and your cloudiness is due to a bacterial bloom. Are you carbon dosing by chance? UV sterilizer was a good move- if it's a bacterial bloom, it should help.
I'd still test some saltwater to confirm ammonia is truely 0. I'd be happy to loan my eyes if you need
I'd still test some saltwater to confirm ammonia is truely 0. I'd be happy to loan my eyes if you need
agreed. the ammonia is in the safe range no matter what that tester might say and in this case it looks pretty darn accurate for the intended use. if it spiked to a clear obvious change overnite, something formerly swimming has died ~
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4tanks
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No nothing dead thanks for your your help guys hopefully tommorow be nice and clear it's a vecton 600 uv on a 100g so it's slightly over sized for the tank which will help
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Thanks I'm OK as long as the wife or kids are around well apart from the head ache that goes with themBased on that description, I'd guess your ammonia is 0 and your cloudiness is due to a bacterial bloom. Are you carbon dosing by chance? UV sterilizer was a good move- if it's a bacterial bloom, it should help.
I'd still test some saltwater to confirm ammonia is truely 0. I'd be happy to loan my eyes if you need
there's a tenet rule in reefing that will help you in the future.
Unless you dose antibiotics to this system, or have dead fish you can't account for visually swimming in the tank, your ammonia can by rule never, ever, ever starve out or drift even the slightest out of spec. for eighty years, in spec. if you pass the tank down generations and in 280 years, not out of spec
wet=bac live and get resources to live through contaminants in your home much less all the feed reserves packed into a sand + rock system.
A firm, unbreakable rule in 2020 updated cycling science is that cycled surfaces kept wet do not retrograde or lose bioload control ability. Bac get their own feed, if we withhold
Your ammonia cannot drift out of spec, so actually needing to test for ammonia or nitrite even again for the life of the reef isn't required. as a matter of pride I can't own an ammonia test kit lol, always got by on the prediction science. your other params can drift, but not ammonia. your cycle completion/ability to control a bioload is locked in by aeons of adaptation to existing in water.
ill be reefing the rest of my life and Ill never own an ammonia kit to use on my tank, although I can see buying one to conduct my own speed cycling experiments one day for fun.
Unless you dose antibiotics to this system, or have dead fish you can't account for visually swimming in the tank, your ammonia can by rule never, ever, ever starve out or drift even the slightest out of spec. for eighty years, in spec. if you pass the tank down generations and in 280 years, not out of spec
wet=bac live and get resources to live through contaminants in your home much less all the feed reserves packed into a sand + rock system.
A firm, unbreakable rule in 2020 updated cycling science is that cycled surfaces kept wet do not retrograde or lose bioload control ability. Bac get their own feed, if we withhold
Your ammonia cannot drift out of spec, so actually needing to test for ammonia or nitrite even again for the life of the reef isn't required. as a matter of pride I can't own an ammonia test kit lol, always got by on the prediction science. your other params can drift, but not ammonia. your cycle completion/ability to control a bioload is locked in by aeons of adaptation to existing in water.
ill be reefing the rest of my life and Ill never own an ammonia kit to use on my tank, although I can see buying one to conduct my own speed cycling experiments one day for fun.
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4tanks
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Based on that description, I'd guess your ammonia is 0 and your cloudiness is due to a bacterial bloom. Are you carbon dosing by chance? UV sterilizer was a good move- if it's a bacterial bloom, it should help.
I'd still test some saltwater to confirm ammonia is truely 0. I'd be happy to loan my eyes if you need
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Turns out I have lots of problems I hadn't had a proper look In tank when I got in as u was straight I to fitting uv sterliser and water chamgr on my 3 FW tanks I have 3 dead damsels and my pbt look like velvet no chance catching the pbt
