Ammonia Spike .5

[brandon429]

went to the lfs and they used this: http://www.amazon.com/Tetra-EasyStrips-Ammonia-Test-Strips/dp/B0053PQUTW to test my sample of water. Their results says:

Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrates: 0
PH: 8.1
Salinity: 1.020

I tested .25 yesterday. I dosed a cap of prime last night (5mL). Today, after coming back from the lfs I tested again with my API test kit and it resulted in .25.

My male flameback angel died a few days ago due to dropsy. If I did have ammonia wouldn't my pistol or goby be the first to go and not the dwarf?

My tank has had ammonia for 8 days now according to the API test kit and if it TRULY did have ammonia shouldn't all my fish and pistol shrimp be dead? I know you said API is false but I'm just wandering why my male dwarf developed dropsy.

If you search disease databases dropsy is never tied to ammonia its a pathogen than takes hold, they are unrelated events. Its not to say continual ammonia presence can't manifest in various ways as disease as fish slowly succumb, its just not happening here

 

[Lpoole]

Pygmy angels are very sensitive to water quality, some more than others. However id use a product called nightoutII. Its basically bacteria in a bottle and it works great. Test strips are very poor. The api with the drops is better than strips though.