Is 3,0 Consider High For Ammonia Level?

[shetland]

Hi, i just started on marine aquria. and this is the second week. i did some ammonia test last week and it was 0,2... now i did another test. it's reveal 3,0. it is normal???

[Tanzy]

It doesn't matter. It should be undetectable. Just wait for the tank to be completely cycled.

[chey42]

3 is high for NH3 ... in this case i think your no2 and no3 would even be higher ... but i think its due to the cycling of the tank ... an NH3 spike often happen during the 2nd week of cycling ...

[shetland]

hmm. the test is for NH3. and i also got the ammonia alert. and it is showing the safe color zone.

[Kalib]

You mean the seachem ammonia alert? Don't think you should rely too much on that. IMO, safer to stick to the testkits.

Personally got one, it showed safe on its colour zone. But the ammount of ammonia which my testkit detected was already unsafe(compared it with the water quality booklet which comes with the interpet testkit).

[Dazza]

just hv patience n keep filter going until u get zero for both ammonia n nitrite b4 u consider putting livestks in... will be worth the wait...

[oshkosh]

Something is wrong with your ammonia alert then. Ammonia levels should be high, given that this is only your 2nd week of cycling.

[IcecruncherZ]

May not be the fault of the Ammonia Alert. Sometimes there might not be any Ammonia/ Nitrite spike during the cycling process. This was the case when i started out too.

But test kits are still more accurate. The Ammonia Alert should act only as a precaution for very extreme ammonia levels.

[junyong84]

huh... using ammonia alert during cycling??? but why??? cycling water sure got high ammonia produce... hehe...

ammonia shld be undetable... and so on..

[shetland]

hey guys, thanks for all the info.

cheers.

[lima16_sg]

Hi, i just started on marine aquria. and this is the second week. i did some ammonia test last week and it was 0,2... now i did another test. it's reveal 3,0. it is normal???

can check which brand testkit u use

reason

on tetra (range 0-5), the reading is 3 (3rd day with LR)

whereas on hagen (hope to cut cost ), range 0-6.1, reading is 0.3

big different

more likely the tetra is correct base on

1) branded

2) have report 0 before adding of LR

3) when testing on FW, hagen showing funny color (browish) but tetra still reporting 0

any advise/comment, which 1 is true?