All About Testing Your Water Parameters | Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite, pH, Calcium, KH with API
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Have you ever wanted to test your water to see if you could find out what is going wrong in the aquarium? Well I got a great video using API's master test kit as well as testing the Calcium and KH.
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Love this dude! Got so much good information from you! Respect brother!
Appreciate you coming out to watch!! Means a lot💪🏼
@@BrockLeonard If your pH color is between 8.0 & 8.2, Means your pH is 8.1, When it's between 8.2 and 8.4, means that's 8.3
I found out that the API 5mil printed mark on the vials are loose. I started using a syringe to measure 5mil to fill the vials.
You rock brock
Thank you Chris!!
Love your content Brock! Question, you usually quote a salinity of 1.023-1.025. About 32-34 ppm if I'm not mistaken. BRS talks about aiming for 1.026 or 35 ppm. Curious why you stay just below that?😃
seawater is 1.025. also, chasing a number is kinda pointless, consistency and stability is far more important.
hi. ammonia my bottle 1. drops are brown. bottle 2. clear drops. should bottle 1. be clear liquid or. brown reading always. 0.25.
Hey Brock every time I test my ammonia I get a cloudy white with a tint of green but doesn’t match any of the colors. I’ve done water changes added more bacteria and a stabilizer once a day and it hasn’t changed at all.
Is the bottle itself expired? The ammonia test takes a good 10 minutes to settle in the tube and change colors. Not sure if you’re waiting that long or not. Also add one bottle at a time and shake inbetween each. You might already be doing so tho.
Hey Brock I have a question can you keep 2 porcuipine pufferfish together?
In a large enough tank, yes!
Hey Brock i have a question and you seem like you know your stuff, i just got my new 29g tank set up about a week and a half ago and wanted to do a fishless cycle so i put some bio spira and dr Tim’s ammonia in there and I waited about a week to test it and my ph and nitrate are ok but my ammonia is around .5 and and my nitrite is is at 1.0 they have been like that for a few days now. I did a 25 percent water change and put more bio spira a day ago, it helped my nitrite go down to .5 but my ammonia is the same. This is my first aquarium ever so I’m kind of in a pickle with what I should do? Also I cleaned my glass with a magnet scrubber a few days ago and i found out bacteria stays on the glass do you think that could have affected it? Sorry for the long paragraph
I always try to recommend people waiting 3-4 weeks for their tank to cycle. Adding the chemicals you did is a great idea to speed up that process. The water change could have affected the cycle a bit. I’d recommend letting it sit with no changes for a week and test it again. I bet you’ll see a change in those parameters.
@@BrockLeonard ok thank you so much
Hey Brook I've heard mixed things about the API tests, I've got some myself for a couple of things, I was wondering what's your thoughts on them? Do you use them regularly and how accurate do you think they are?
Thank you
One of the only brands I’ve used for years. They’ve been accurate from what I can tell. Save me from some spikes at times too. The bottles do eventually expire so definitely check them before testing.
I agree
hi. ammonia my bottle 1. drops are brown. bottle 2. clear drops. should bottle 1. be clear liquid or. brown reading always. 0.25. bottle 1 cap is all brown. on inside
Have they expired yet? I do know the liquid is usually a cloudy whitish yellow color
Hello Brock... I got a question about the API nitrate test.. I only use the API for nitrate testing.. it says to fill 5 ml water in test tube which should be equal to the white line marked.. but if I fill the test tube with 5 ml water from a syringe the water level surpasses the white marked line. Which one should I take as a guide, 5 ml syringe or the white marked line
You should only be using the glass tube that was provided by API and filling it to the white line. If the glass tube breaks at any point, you can use another container form other brands test kit. At that point you will use a syringe that is measured at 5ml to fill it up and do your test. Just use your syringe and fill it to the white line. Don't overfill it, even if your syringe is saying there needs to be more in there to be 5ml
@@Modg23 Okay... Thank You
No problem. I also would recommend slowly buying salifert testing kits instead of API. They are alot more expensive but more accurate
@@Modg23I already have all the salifert test kit , PO4, KH, Cal, Mag... Just had purchased the nitrate from API bcz at that time salifert wasn't available at the store.. I'm waiting for this APi test kit to finish and then I'll buy a salifert one
Definitely the white line on the tube!
I don't understand why ppl always try to 0 out Nitrates and phosphates. Having a lot is just as bad as having none. Ppl should be thought find the right balance for your tank
8.2-8.3, 12, 78°F, 1.024.
Thanks Brock
thanks for watching buddy
Those API are garbage and are horrible for beginners, they give very inconsistent readings which makes it harder to Reef. Once I upgraded my testing equipment to salifert and red sea, I've gotten way more stable week to week with peramiters...
I appreciate you sharing! I’ve heard great things about the Red Sea tests!
You need to read the instructions again as you are not testing correctly. The Ammonia test for sure. Love the show though.
Thanks Brock for the great video. How do you raise PH in your tank?