Api Nitrite Test

[**sarahp**]

You won't see but one change in nitrite. One morning it will be off the chart and that evening when you test again, it will be zero. It literally does drop that quickly. Once again it makes sense that it would happen that way. If you figure that the bacteria are doubling every 24 hours or so, and say by the time it is almost there, there is 30ppm of nitrite left. If at that time there is enough bacteria to process 15ppm in 12 hours, then one more doubling would handle the full 30 so it would fall to 0.

Oh yeah *doh* makes perfect sense when someone points it out to you - its like a dark art this fish stuff I knew I should have paid more attention in chemistry when i was at school

 

[rdd1952]

This is totally off topic but do you get email notifications when people post to your topic? I started a thread in the Announcements section saying that email notification doesn't work for me. I stopped getting notifictions on my fishless cycling thread 8 or 9 months ago and there have been a few more that I've subscribed to in the last month or 2 but I never know when someone replies. The only one that replied to my hread there was William to ask if anyone else was having the problem.

 

[**sarahp**]

This is totally off topic but do you get email notifications when people post to your topic?

No I dont Didnt even know it was an option, or is it supposed to be set as standard unless you alter it? Cant rmember it being asked when I joined either

 

[ebrcknrdg]

This is totally off topic but do you get email notifications when people post to your topic? I started a thread in the Announcements section saying that email notification doesn't work for me. I stopped getting notifictions on my fishless cycling thread 8 or 9 months ago and there have been a few more that I've subscribed to in the last month or 2 but I never know when someone replies. The only one that replied to my hread there was William to ask if anyone else was having the problem.

when i subscribe to a thread it asks if and when i want emails i.e delayed or immediately

 

[rdd1952]

This is totally off topic but do you get email notifications when people post to your topic? I started a thread in the Announcements section saying that email notification doesn't work for me. I stopped getting notifictions on my fishless cycling thread 8 or 9 months ago and there have been a few more that I've subscribed to in the last month or 2 but I never know when someone replies. The only one that replied to my hread there was William to ask if anyone else was having the problem.

when i subscribe to a thread it asks if and when i want emails i.e delayed or immediately

Do you get the notifications? I have been clicking the immediate notification but never get anything. I remember when I always got them but never do any more.

 

[CruX]

Do they have your correct email address? Sometimes notifications from here go to my spam box.

 

[ArauraDiscus]

Nitrite levels go along a blue to purple to red test. There is no green along there. Ph goes from yellow to green to blue. You must have been talking about Ph. Light purple is around .25 to .50 ppms of nitrite.

 

[CruX]

Nitrite levels go along a blue to purple to red test. There is no green along there. Ph goes from yellow to green to blue. You must have been talking about Ph. Light purple is around .25 to .50 ppms of nitrite.

Sometimes the blue 0 indicator with mine looks a bit like a turquoise bluey green, placing it against a white background shows it to be blue. Checking colours in unnatural light is hard. I am a telecomms cable jointer by trade and learned long ago that if you are unsure of a colour place it against a white background.

 

[rdd1952]

Do they have your correct email address? Sometimes notifications from here go to my spam box.

They do hae the correct email. I still get emails if someone on the forum emails me rather than PMing me.

Nitrite levels go along a blue to purple to red test. There is no green along there. Ph goes from yellow to green to blue. You must have been talking about Ph. Light purple is around .25 to .50 ppms of nitrite.

Sometimes the blue 0 indicator with mine looks a bit like a turquoise bluey green, placing it against a white background shows it to be blue. Checking colours in unnatural light is hard. I am a telecomms cable jointer by trade and learned long ago that if you are unsure of a colour place it against a white background.

She has it correct. In the API kit, if the nitrite is extremey high as it always is in the later stages of a fishless cycle, it will indeed turn green if you shake it and let it sit. Someone had already posted a month or 2 ago that they had emailed API and been told that was the case and sarahp also called them. There is just so much there that it turns an odd color.

 

[CruX]

Do they have your correct email address? Sometimes notifications from here go to my spam box.

They do hae the correct email. I still get emails if someone on the forum emails me rather than PMing me.

I take it they aren't going to your spam box?

Nitrite levels go along a blue to purple to red test. There is no green along there. Ph goes from yellow to green to blue. You must have been talking about Ph. Light purple is around .25 to .50 ppms of nitrite.

Sometimes the blue 0 indicator with mine looks a bit like a turquoise bluey green, placing it against a white background shows it to be blue. Checking colours in unnatural light is hard. I am a telecomms cable jointer by trade and learned long ago that if you are unsure of a colour place it against a white background.

She has it correct. In the API kit, if the nitrite is extremey high as it always is in the later stages of a fishless cycle, it will indeed turn green if you shake it and let it sit. Someone had already posted a month or 2 ago that they had emailed API and been told that was the case and sarahp also called them. There is just so much there that it turns an odd color.

Indeed, but I thought I might add where confusion can come into it. The thing I don't like about the API is the nitrate, about 6 different shades of red to pick from.

 

[rdd1952]

I take it they aren't going to your spam box?

It's a Yahoo address and I don't usea Spam folder (got tired of haing to delete files from 2 folders so justlet them all come into 1).

Indeed, but I thought I might add where confusion can come into it. The thing I don't like about the API is the nitrate, about 6 different shades of red to pick from.

You're right about that. I can't really differentiate between the shades of red once it gets to about 20ppm. From that point on, they all look the same to me.

 

[CruX]

I take it they aren't going to your spam box?

It's a Yahoo address and I don't usea Spam folder (got tired of haing to delete files from 2 folders so justlet them all come into 1).

Indeed, but I thought I might add where confusion can come into it. The thing I don't like about the API is the nitrate, about 6 different shades of red to pick from.

You're right about that. I can't really differentiate between the shades of red once it gets to about 20ppm. From that point on, they all look the same to me.

I just take it as a point of interest and to make sure I actually have some nitrates in there. I noticed if you leave it more than 5 minutes it gets darker anyway. I once left a sample (nitrate test sample not the other kind) for over an hour and it changed dramatically from the colour it was after 5 minutes.

 

[rdd1952]

I haven't even tested nitrate in ages. My tanks have been running for over 2 years, they're planted, lightly stocked, overfiltered and I do weekly water changes so the nitrate never gets over 10 to 15 ppm or at least when I did test them that wa the case.

Edit: I also just changed my email to my work email just to see if that helps. The one on file was correct though.

 

[CruX]

I haven't even tested nitrate in ages. My tanks have been running for over 2 years, they're planted, lightly stocked, overfiltered and I do weekly water changes so the nitrate never gets over 10 to 15 ppm or at least when I did test them that wa the case.

Edit: I also just changed my email to my work email just to see if that helps. The one on file was correct though.

I tend to test it out of routine. My Ph has never changed from just below neutral and my tap water is bang on neutral and I test that every time too.

As for the email thing, in the UK Yahoo has teamed up with British Telecommunications to provide email facilities for some reason (I work for BT and don't know the reason why) and they now have a built in spam filter. I have to check via webmail regularly to make sure I haven't missed anything and TFF emails are always in there even though I tell it to let it through. I am wondering if Yahoo US have a similar set up.

 

[ArauraDiscus]

Ahh I see, learning is half the battle, so says the Gi joes, which family guy taught me by proxxy tonight. LMAO