constant ammonia?

[Netotek]

Tank:
13.5G Fluval Evo - 5 months old
1 Clownfish, 1 Tuxedo Urchin

Is the ammonia supposed to be zero (Hanna Checker)? Everyone in the tank is happy and eating and swimming fine.

 

[robotrash]

I could be mistaken but I believe accuracy on that tester is ±.05 so you're well within range of zero. I personally wouldn't be concerned about it.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

There's no reason to need ammonia to be lower, whether that value is real or not. It's a good source of N for organisms, and some folks dose it.

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[brandon429]

That’s a valuable data plot above for timing studies because it’s digital at least. Part of the new wave of ammonia control tracking for reefing / phasing out the guess at a color tube and report it as fact method

Preface that data set if you can w cycling details

what brand bottle bac did you use, the cycle was started rather quickly there on that log

Let’s see which bottle bac did that cycle hold shown


your bioload increased over time yet the hold constant didn’t falter that is pretty neat

 

[brandon429]

Is it possible at all that you can run an api and or a Red Sea common non digital ammonia test and post the pics/helps get data on match rates between measurement systems

I can see you had the tank cycled a while before the hanna was started, or did you have hanna testing logs from day one of the cycle