"Floaties" in N03 test?

[Davy Jones]

Anyone else see this before??

Rather new test kit, instructions followed to the letter..

Thanks

 

[pelphrey]

I’ve seen the same thing on mine from time to time. I don’t feel like it happens with each test.

 

[Matt Carden]

First off I have Salifert tests. I saw this same thing in my NO3 test which would result in wrong color test results. After a few weeks of unreadable test and getting an API test kit to verify results, which also showed unreadable results, I performed a 99% water change. Immediately after water change my NO3 was 40 ppm. Now I don't see the specks during testing anymore since the water change. I figure I had a contaminant that I removed with the water change. Something else weird is that my Phosphate was reading 0 before the water change and after its pegged off the charts. Whatever contaminants I had seemed to be interfering with my Phosphate test. Have you tested phosphate?

 

[Davy Jones]

First off I have Salifert tests. I saw this same thing in my NO3 test which would result in wrong color test results. After a few weeks of unreadable test and getting an API test kit to verify results, which also showed unreadable results, I performed a 99% water change. Immediately after water change my NO3 was 40 ppm. Now I don't see the specks during testing anymore since the water change. I figure I had a contaminant that I removed with the water change. Something else weird is that my Phosphate was reading 0 before the water change and after its pegged off the charts. Whatever contaminants I had seemed to be interfering with my Phosphate test. Have you tested phosphate?

That's very weird!! I tested everything else and all other tests were fine

 

[Potatohead]

Normal for Red Sea Pro, nothing to worry about

 

[homer1475]

Normal for Red Sea Pro, nothing to worry about

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Completely normal for the Red Sea Pro kit. In the instructions they tell you after the timer, to tap the vial so those "floaties" settle to the bottom.

 

[Davy Jones]

Normal for Red Sea Pro, nothing to worry about

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Completely normal for the Red Sea Pro kit. In the instructions they tell you after the timer, to tap the vial so those "floaties" settle to the bottom.

Thanks for the re-assurance, I did tap the bottle a couple times but the floaties caused more bubbles making it hard to get a reading. however, after another 10 minutes of sitting (total of 19 minutes) it was very easy to read.

 

[scriptmonkey]

whew...I was coming her to post the same thing... good to know it is normal.. Mine was coming from Vial B.