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Well my in-line one and handheld one show the same results

Odd mines always been zero (I’m not complaining lol)

Are you buying it already remineralised or is that meant to be plain ro? In which case they need to replace their membrane

DI is just a final polish I get zero TDS without a DI which is overkill for fresh water anyway

No the whole idea of ro is it strips everything out of the water

Its genrally 6.5 but sometimes its 6.6 before lights on. I have it come on 2 hours before lights on and off 1 hour before off. Co2 has always been stable but the carpets always looked poo. Its only the last week or so the co2 has been abit unstable after i must of knocked the dial when I swopped...

Yes I did a profile goes from 6.4-6.6

Yes tbh I’m on the verge of yanking it out and planting something else it looks horrible

Although my drop checker is lime green and there’s loads of flow you can see the low plants moving? [emoji53]

No an api test kit

Thanks, the only probs I Have really is with hc and I think that may be down to when I had to turn the lights down to clear an algae issue when it was first cycling. So it’s ended up looking like this

But what is the level it should be ie is mine to low which is kinda what I’m asking. In my old tank it was to high because I was using a hma filter and my tap water has really high phosphate so I was getting bad hair algae.

What level of phosphate should we be aiming for? I use remineralised RO and dose AIO and fairly heavily planted my level is always around 0-0.25.

The nitrite kit don’t work as said above I got another one today and I do have a nitrite reading and nitrate as said above, cheers might try some safe start to be on the “safe side”

As if by magic the nitrate test started working today and pretty much matched the tetra test. Nitrite one still not working tho. I did contact API and they just deny there could be anything wrong with their tests. It’s just users that aren’t happy with the results being quick to blame API. Lol...

Yeah that’s my plan just waiting for a few bits so I can connect my new ro up rather than buy it from Maidenhead

Pretty good had to trim one lot of stem plants back about 6 inches yesterday. Notice some of my hc melting abit dunno unless that’s because it’s emersed now? Here’s a quick pic abit dark because the lights have nearly ramped down Still going through the ugly diatom stage. I did put the lights...

I’m happy to leave it for another couple weeks just wandered if it would be safe to add some amanos and a couple snails to battle the diatoms?

I did a dry start for 6 weeks with all the plants and I’m on my 4th week flooded

Thanks Darrel, Just read through that I will stop adding ammonia. But how do I know when I can start adding a clean up crew and fish?

Yes I have been adding ammonia which has been going in 48 hours

Well I tested some rain water today and that also came out as zero nitrite and 5 nitrate so I’d say they are duff. I have contacted api see what they say

Hmm doesn’t expire until 2024 may have to complain to api

Fishless cycling which is taking ages haven’t had any reading for nitrite yet

Yes I did I did put it in my post but it seems to have missed it. The tetra one said the tap water was 12.5 and the tank was 100 [emoji53]

Well I tested the tap water as I’m using ro it wouldn’t resemble what is in the tank

Hi guys Ive been using a API master set which expires in 2024 Im not convinced my nitrate kit is working. Yeah I know they need alot of shaking Ive even been using my paint vortext mixer / shaker so they are more than shaken well. Everytime I test my tank it says its 5.0 ppm which it has done...

Apart from the normal ph, amonia, nitrite, nitrate,tds, gh and kh are there any other test kits i need for a planted tank?