Thanks to Capn Highliner I checked my tap water none in tap water . Checked RO/DO outlet to storage barrel none. Checked storage barrel 0.25 same as tank was testing after water change. Now I keep my wate two or three weeks always add to what is left when plastic garbage container gets low. It's been said here that you can store water up to a month . I haven't circulated it would this help. Also does anyone know why I'm picking up amonia through storing the water .Also no salt has been aded to this container.
Found source of amonia !
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captainobvious
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Did you use a cleaner to clean the plastic container initially? Maybe some ammonia was leached into the plastic...
Aquarist007
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This could be just a bad test or test kit--unless someone has been using windex or similar in the same room, on the tank top etc, windows beside it--if sprayed in the air it can settle and dissovle in the water
Well tested the RO/DI twice and tap water twice shows between 0 and 0.25 but it's there Before and after it comes out of filter. I installed filter 8/12/07 and have made about 400 gal of water since then . I have never let filter dry out I just shut water off to it . So is there a problem. By the way the unit is a coralife 50 gal a day unit.
Aquarist007
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take some of it to the LFS and have them test it
Aquarist007
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bring some with you one Monday night:lol:
demonsp
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Ronny its cool your in here and trying but i see many threads of differant topics and this makes me feel your overwhelmed and confused.
I think if you stop what your doing and rethink your whole tank from top to bottom you might get a better hold.And i dont mean redoing the tank only re thinking it.If you can get the basics undercontrol and understand them things will be much better for you
I think if you stop what your doing and rethink your whole tank from top to bottom you might get a better hold.And i dont mean redoing the tank only re thinking it.If you can get the basics undercontrol and understand them things will be much better for you
A couple of thoughts.:
Ro /di water is very pure and will readily absorb molecules out of the air not to mention dust and in my case dog hair.I cover my rubbermaid ruff neck.
I'm not sure if ammonia test kits work well on pure di water. Maybe you could test newly mixed salt water to see if you still get an ammonia reading.More likely, the test is off.
Ro /di water is very pure and will readily absorb molecules out of the air not to mention dust and in my case dog hair.I cover my rubbermaid ruff neck.
I'm not sure if ammonia test kits work well on pure di water. Maybe you could test newly mixed salt water to see if you still get an ammonia reading.More likely, the test is off.
I used the test kit that I use for my fresh wate tank. I just found the amonia there and was concerned about it. It's very little but it's there. I tested my fresh tank and it showed an absolute bright yellow that = 0 amonia. Ya Demonsp not overwhelmed but this tank seeing it's so small keeps the maintainence of it chalenging. Very difficult so many parameters to deal with. But if it were not for this forem I would not have been abe to get as ar as i have. Just some very I will say not as nice to deal with like everywhere else in the world.
