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

It will be intersting to see.

Donna

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> From: Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net>
>To: Tropical Fish Club <tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 10:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] OK, Talked to Dr. Tim again....
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>Thanks, Donna, since I have been adding 2 tsp every other day for a couple
>weeks now....that is a lot of Prime in my tank. So it will take a while to
>PWC all that Prime out of the water in the tank in order to get a 0 ammonia
>reading. Since the fish in my tank are fine. I might try adding one or two
>more fish and see how it goes.
>I think I will hold off on the Prime for a while and use Stress Coat or
>Tetra Safe or Aqua Safe to take the chemicals and toxic metals out of the
>water rather than Prime for awhile and see if I can get 0 ammonia.
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>Fun, fun, fun!
>Connie
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>From: Donna King
>Date: 10/27/12 17:07:03
>To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] OK, Talked to Dr. Tim again....
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>Hi Connie,
>i have always had tanks read 0 or near 0 ammonia when they are cycled. I
>have never had them read 2 ppms when they were fully cycled. I use Amquel
>Plus but it also gives a false reading in amounts never that it is there.
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>I guess I would stop using it and wait for it to read 0 before you add any
>fish.
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>Donna
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>> From: Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net>
>>To: Tropical Fish Club <tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com>
>>Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:58 PM
>>Subject: [tropical fish club] OK, Talked to Dr. Tim again....
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>>Thanks, Donna, for the advice to call Dr. Tim again. He was very nice and
>>informative.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>So now I might be able to add another fish or two! Yeah!!!
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>>Connie
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