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

Donna, I've been putting Prime 0.1cc per gallon. Is that right?

I'm making the kids dinner, but I'm curious to try the tap water experiment.

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On Oct 28, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Donna King <donnalynneking@yahoo.com> wrote:

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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>On Oct 28, 2012, at 4:25 PM, sevenspringss@wmconnect.com wrote:
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>Connie,
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>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).
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>Ray</HTML>
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