robert2191
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Hi , does my nitrate look to high
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Thanks would my fish be okIt looks over 40 ppm
But that could be due to macro ferts?
Thank you i did a water change yesterday , i will test my tap water as soon as i canHi Robert
My Nitrate from the tap is approximately 50ppm!
Test your tap - water!
These test kits are not that accurate....they a frowned on by a lot of aquarists on here!
Your fish will be okay....do a large water change to remove some nitrate!
hoggie
ThanksHi, I switched from using the API nitrate test to the Nutrafin Nitrate test. I was finding the API test was impossible to distinguish between 40 and 80 - the Nutrafin test is much easier to read colour-wise. Also, it's worth remembering that nitrate tests generally are not very reliable anyway! If the fish are happy, I rarely test my water these days.
Any of these will give a far more reliable reading than anything you get in your fish shop.Not sure what test kits are actually recommended tbh
I don't test the water as there is no reason to. Just watch drop checker and plants to see water quality.@ian_m do you realy have 400 pound + of testing kits in your cabinet
Correct.they are completely useless?
Not necessarily. Chlorine gas will generally dissipate from the water, if left for 24hours. But chloramine is also used, around the world, as its doesn't dissipate so easily. Chloramine must be removed chemically either suitable well maintained carbon filter or dechlorinator. Some countries, notable Netherlands use hydrogen peroxide to sterilise their water supply.always thought chlorine only excists in gas form
Chloramines are a group of chemical compounds that contain chlorine and ammonia
Some areas of Netherlands do use chlorine/chloramine, you need to check with your water company.Intresting, never looked it up before, since we don't have it in our water i had no need to..
It is the difference between chlorine gas (Cl2) (and the <"hypochlorite ion"> (ClO−)) and the chloride ion (Cl-).But could be mistaken or informed falsly, always thought chlorine only excists in gass form and eventualy will degass from the water especialy rather faster if it's moving water.
You can get accurate NO3- levels for water, but none of the methods are very straight forward. In the lab we use <"ion selective electrodes">, but you still needs to make up standards etc. If you want accurate results (like a water company would want) you need to use high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).Nitrate is reduced almost quantitatively to nitrite in the presence of Cd. The nitrite thus produced is determined by diazotizing with sulfanilamide and coupling with N-(1-napthyl)-ethylenediamine dihydrochloride to form a highly colored azo dye that is measured colorimetrically.
This is right, the more effective a filter is at aerobic biological filtration the more NO3 is produced (final levels will be dependent upon the ammonia bioload).And lately installed a moving bed filter of which is said they can up the nitrate levels significantly, so i bought a set of that out of curiousity..