Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] OK, Talked to Dr. Tim again....

Hi Connie,

Sounds good to me. Standing from your side of it, I would go slow.
Get some fish a few, keep an eye on your tests and remember your
PWC's. Keep a general eye on everything for a while yet. After all this
time waiting, and thinking about the fish, I'm sure that you already have
a good idea of what to get. Keep us posted and Good Luck!

bill in pa

--- On Sat, 10/27/12, Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net> wrote:

> From: Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net>
> Subject: [tropical fish club] OK, Talked to Dr. Tim again....
> To: "Tropical Fish Club" <tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Saturday, October 27, 2012, 2:58 PM
> Thanks, Donna, for the advice to call
> Dr. Tim again. He was very nice and
> informative.
>
> Dr. Tim says the tank has cycled and with me using Prime
> that is causing the
> false ammonia readings with both the Seachem and API test
> kits.
> He said that the key is that since I have no Nitrites and
> good Nitrates that
> the tank has cycled, and with the fish doing fine that is
> another sign the
> tank has cycled.
>
> He said if I stopped using Prime as my de-chlorinator that
> after a few weeks
> of PWC the Ammonia would show as zero when all the Prime is
> gone from the
> water. He said this is a very common thing that goes on with
> people who use
> Prime and the API test kits and the seachem test kit. We
> know my seachem
> tests are messed up because the Free Ammonia never shows as
> it should at 0.
> And I have been using 2 tsp Prime every other day thinking I
> had bad ammonia
> in the tank....so my tank has a lot of Prime in it.
>
> Don't know if any of you have had this false positive
> ammonia test with the
> Prime and the API test kit. But that is what Dr. Tim said
> and I tend to
> agree with him since the Nitrites have been at 0 for 5 days
> now.
>
> So now I might be able to add another fish or two! Yeah!!!
>
> Connie
>
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