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

Yes, great idea....my tap water has ammonia at .25 to begin with.
So it would test higher than that.
I might try this later today.....today is shopping day for me.
Connie

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From: Donna King
Date: 10/28/12 15:50:18
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] OK, Talked to Dr. Tim again....

Yes from what he said if you were to test the tap and then add say a double
or triple dose of Prime you should read ammonia. Brilliant idea!!

Donna

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> From: Cari <cahyman@yahoo.com>
>To: "tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com" <tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:32 PM
>Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] OK, Talked to Dr. Tim again....
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>Would this work - take some tap water, test it for ammonia. Put in prime
and test again. Will it show false positive ammonia?
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>Sent from my iPhone
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>On Oct 28, 2012, at 4:25 PM, sevenspringss@wmconnect.com wrote:
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>Connie,
>
>Of course, Dr. Tim is a much better expert than both of us, but I'd just
>like to mention that a zero or near-zero nitrite reading would really not
>necessarily indicate that the tank is cycled. It would just mean that the
>nitrtite-eating bacteria have populated enough to take care of all the
ammonia
>that's being eaten and converted into nitrite. This may be a relatively
small
>population of nitrite-eating bacteria, especially if relatively little
>ammonia is being converted into nitrite -- as might "appear" to the the
case
>here (if your high ammonia readings are actually true).
>
>Ray</HTML>
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