Amonia spike?

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Hi I recently testes amonia in my 30g reef and it said 0.2 or at least I read it as that could've been in between 0 1 and 0.2 but the corals seem to be doing well including sps and my cleaner shrimp I have no fish in the system and its around a year old is this a misread
 
Our non digital test kits over report natural + - spikes in ammonia from minor system changes or feeding events etc

Sometimes adulterants have been used like prime water prep at water change time...

But either way a lysmata shrimp is the ultimate mine canary this reef is fine.

Ammonia can never drift out of spec once cycled

Even a dead fish raises it, but not to lethal levels each reef tank can handle variation just fine
 
On seneye if working correctly this reading would have been an acceptable range of .00x-.00x in the thousandths ppm nh3, not tenths.

My chemistry friends have reminded me that even the stated readings above must be divided out in something called tan conversion in order to reflect nh3, the only form of ammonia we care about. On this kit above after tan we're at least in .0x hundredths ppm range, considered safe. The day it hits .2 for real, total Wipeout w be reported its unsustainable

Free ammonia tracing after cycle completes is easy, it will never be a case of being uncycled.

Homework for us all: I don't know which is more rapidly uptaken in reefing, oxygen or ammonia. Tough call

Ammonia is for sure in the top two rates of turnover for params we can measure. if it is even handled faster/ more units per second than oxygen I'll not be surprised, nothing above thousandths ppm is going on post cycle.
Ammonia is never left unused by bacteria, too valuable as substrate for metabolic machinery

that's why every system is always ammonia compliant, it's always a mis test going on. I've never seen a single outlier accurately shown, on verified working seneye.

I would like to know rates of consumption vs production for oxygen vs free ammonia nh3 in marine systems, that will show a neat perspective
 
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